What is in a lethal injection?

Question

I figure since you do a lot of research on the internet that you'll help me with this.

Answer 1

In most states it goes like this:  First , Sodium pentothol to put the condemned to sleep,  Once they are asleep, the second agent, Pancuronium bromide is given as a paralyzing agent to halt breathing, finally potassium chloride is given to stop the heart.

Answer 2

I'm not gonna tell u because u look like a mass murderer

Answer 3

The injection is usually a sequence of drugs given in a set sequence, designed to first induce unconsciousness followed by death through paralysis of respiratory muscles and/or by cardiac arrest. The execution of the condemned in most states involves three separate injections (in sequential order):

   1. Sodium thiopental- an agent capable of rendering the person unconscious in a few seconds.

   2. Pancuronium- this would cause death by asphyxiation.

   3. Potassium chloride-  causes death by cardiac arrest.

The drugs are not mixed externally as that can cause them to precipitate.

Answer 4

The researchers found that the average concentrations of the anaesthetic sodium thiopental varied enormously per kilogram of body weight, from 10 milligrams to 75 mg

Answer 5

In 1977, Oklahoma's state medical examiner, Jay Chapman, proposed a new, 'more humane' method of execution, known as Chapman's Protocol: "An intravenous saline drip shall be started in the prisoner's arm, into which shall be introduced a lethal injection consisting of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic."[6] After being approved by anesthesiologist Stanley Deutsch, Reverend Bill Wiseman introduced the method[7] into the Oklahoma legislature where it passed and was quickly adopted (Title 22, Section 1014(A)). Since then, thirty-seven of the thirty-eight states using capital punishment have introduced lethal injection statutes.[6] On 7 December 1982, Texas became the first state to use lethal injection to carry out capital punishment, for the execution of Charles Brooks, Jr..[8]

Answer 6

An injection... That is lethal.

:O! Shocker.

Answer 7

It is a mixture of various harmful chimicals that can do damage to the human body in large doses.