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my wife owns several horses Last spring, the oldest had several ongoing issues and one night, we came home to find the horse down in its field and while we got him back up and the vet spent the night giving the animal IVs and other medications, by the next day, the lab results were such that the horse-31 at the time-could not tolerate the surgery that had an outside chance of saving it. SO the vet gave the horse a shot and in 10 seconds it went completely down and was dead within a minute. There is nothing to indicate the animal suffered any pain.
Umm that's not the same as the controversy over the prison 'cocktail' First, a standard amount of midazolam sedative is used regardless of the body mass. That means someone who is large may not even pass out...In fact this has happened:
Arizona execution stirs lethal injection controversy - CNN.com
"It took nearly two hours for him to die.
Journalists called to witness the execution said it was hard to watch, as Wood snorted and gasped."
Of course, the sadists will say he deserved it, but the reason Arkansas is frothing at the mouth to butcher several people this way is to save $ (use its stock of the drugs) before SCOTUS bans it altogether (likely)
When there's no indication? That's because the muscles are stopped first so they *cant* respond. It's just a pretense to act as if it's not 'cruel and unusual' because you don't see them flailing about - "It also smothers any outward signs of distress that would trouble observers." The Death Penalty is Experiencing Technical Difficulties - Fordham Law
"Every year, thousands of Americans report waking up mid-surgery, able to feel the pain but unable to cry out because of the paralytic drug."
This is what happens in some cases of lethal injections. Difference of course is surgery is meant to be lifesaving/improving, and guess what? Most hospitals have stopped using it so they can increase the sedative, when the patient is reacting. The paralyzer is also banned on animal euthanasia for this reason. But that kind of paralyzed suffering is far less likely with animals than human executions because, well, their brains are different, and because the lethal drug is different. So what happens in the 3rd stage of executions?
They stop the heart before the brain, which will be painful and take a lot longer than 1 minute. The way they stop the heart is also barbaric - they simply OD someone on a painkiller. So the person is laying there slowly overdosing and unable to indicate any torment. No sedative will likely keep them unconscious thru that. So an OD will take a lot longer than 1 minute to stop the heart, and then in turn shut off the brain - "The average time to death once a lethal injection protocol has been started is about 7 to 11 minutes" Change in Lethal Injections Ordered - latimes
In the case of the Arizona execution, it took 2 hours!
This has led to some judges ordering an end to this process in their respective state
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