"Missing a vein when administering the injections would cause "both psychological and physical discomfort -- probably pretty severe," said Dr. J. Kent Garman, an emeritus professor of anesthesia at the Stanford School of Medicine in California."
I wonder if victim's family ever experienced psychological and phsysical discomfort... Left alone financial difficulties.
The states never should have given up hanging and firing squads. Involving doctors in executions was a dumb move. It doesn't take a doctor to pull a trigger.