Lethal Injection protocols call for the administration of Sodium Thiopental 2-5 grams depending on the persons weight. Sodium thiopental is used to medically induce coma’s and renders the receiving person unconscious in 30-45 seconds, in as little as 10 if given a higher dose.
The only “pain” associated with lethal injection is the insertion of an IV, something most of us will have in our lifetime.
The argument that somehow this procedure is cruel and unusual because it is painful has been shotdown by decades of medical literature on the very drug used to make sure the executed feels no paid. Unlike their victims of course.
It sickens me that we have to hear this bogus cruel and unusual argument. The REAL cruel and unusual punishment is what the families of the dead victims have to go through being jerked around for decades as these scumbags are given one reprieve after another.
You can only blame the media and the courts to a point though. It is the American people who continue to elect politicians who appoint criminal coddling judges. I wonder how many people who can’t wait to vote for Hillary are the same ones who say they are afraid of crime and complaining about the tolerance of it.