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Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broader sense to include euthanasia and other forms of ...
Incapacitating agent is a chemical or biological agent which renders a person unable to harm themselves or others, regardless of consciousness. [1]Lethal agents are primarily intended to kill, but incapacitating agents can also kill if administered in a potent enough dose, or in certain scenarios.
A lethal dose for rats is between 150 ppm and 220 ppm, meaning the air in the building was highly toxic. On 27 January 2013, a fire at the Kiss nightclub in the city of Santa Maria , in the south of Brazil , caused the poisoning of hundreds of young people by cyanide released by the combustion of soundproofing foam made with polyurethane .
A scheduled execution in Alabama that was called off Thursday after prison officials couldn't find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs into is the latest in a long history of problems with ...
The state’s revised lethal injection process will allow for a central line to access a prisoner’s body to deliver a lethal dose of chemicals through syringes when a regular IV, also known as ...
A day after Idaho prison’s system advised that it is again ready to perform a lethal injection, an Ada County judge issued the latest death warrant for Thomas Creech, the state’s longest ...
Pentobarbital has been used or considered as a substitute for the barbiturate sodium thiopental used for capital punishment by lethal injection in the United States when that drug became unavailable. [16] In 2011 the U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental stopped production, and importation of the drug proved impossible.
Last year, Idaho passed a law that made a firing squad the state’s backup method of execution when lethal injection drugs are unavailable, providing up to $750,000 for design and construction.