what does the lethal injection consist of?
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One drug puts them to sleep and the second one stops the heart.
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Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, traditional teaching does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.\n\nIf, however, non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people's safety from the aggressor, authority will limit itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person. \n\nToday, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm - without definitely taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically non-existent.
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I don't know officially why.  But, my guess would be that if they did not sterilize it, some lawyer would convince a judge it was cruel and unusual punishment.  Or, maybe it is because it is good medical practice.  And if you did not sterilize it for the lethal injection, you may forget to sterilize a needle when giving a different type of injection to someone.
413119
Sounds like Controlled Substance Act (drugs)  Manufacturing/ Delivery.\n\nJust a guess, but if you've got any left that you want to get rid of before trial...
554197
The electric chair is no longer in use. Executions these days are carried out by lethal injection.
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LAWYERS! That's why. If they used a dirty needle and the person died from anything other than the chemical injection, like an infection, then the gov't would get sued.  Basically it is in case anything goes wrong- that is why they are sterilized.
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I still think that a firing squad is the most humane.  It's quick, almost instantaneous, and none of the men on the squad knows who shot a real bullet or who shot a blank.  In lethal injection, the condemned convulse (just like in electrocution).  Beheading might be more accurate (the firing squad could all miss) but seems to be more of a show for the public (see French Revolution or Saudia Arabia) as a deterent.  Hanging is even less accurate (see Thrice Hung John of English lore).  I must admit though, I'm against capital punishment because of economic reasons.  The extra costs of court appeals, lethal injections (or electrocutions) upon taxpayers is much more than most people realize.
516696
well, i don't like to think that we have the right to take a human life.....on the other hand, my cousin was murdered and her assassin got 7 years.  He should have died.  After all he took her life.  Our prison system does not rehabilitate nor can it simply because the people inside are sociopaths.  so yeah, I'm for the death penalty and lethal injection is probably the least messy choice.
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Just a guess would be a combination of habit (as the other answerer so far has said), and perhaps the extremely unlikely possibility that there will be a reprieve of some sort after the IV lines go in, but before the lethal injection is released. So they'd do the sterile-site thing so there'd be a decreased chance of the prisoner getting some blood-borne disease. \n\nIt's very good question, though. The prison system will go to great lengths to keep a deathrow inmate alive so that s/he'll be healthy at the time of execution. That's justice, no?
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You want to plagiarize to prove your point. Haven't you got any point of view of your own? This is a debate !!! It should reflect your views. Hahaha. \n\nYou should go a step ahead. One of the liberals spoke about banning life imprisonment and suggesting it to be maximum of 4 years. And one spoke about granting more rights to serial killers. Way to go!
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It is all three.\nKilling someone, that would be black and white...a definite no no.\nAccidentally killing someone would be a shade of grey.
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It does sound awful, if you understand what goes on in that persons body when they're injected. Especially if they aren't sedated properly. Ah man, capital punishment really makes me sad, I'm not saying I'm against it, but it's just an awful situation it seems like.
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So that there will be a safe execution.
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The correct answer is to sterilize the skin and prevent infection.  This is how medical personnel are trained, and they follow their procedures even when they don't seem to make much sense.\n\nHere's my proof:  an account of an execution by Warden Burl Cain of Angola.\n\n''...No matter what method you use, execution's not easy. But the biggest problem is getting them ready to die. He [James] had found Christ, I had got to know him real well: I will not kill a man I don't know...And I promised I would hold his hand from the moment we strapped him down on the table until he died. But it was terrible because we couldn't get the intravenous lines into his arm. He was strapped down but they couldn't find a vein. He was lying there for 15 minutes, and I finally had to ask him: 'Antonio, please make a fist, so we can find your vein'. We had to get him to make a fist so we could kill him. Then the doctor got the line in; he used an alcohol swab to sterilise the skin and I said, 'What's the point?' After we got the lines in it took another few minutes...I would not like to execute an inmate without faith because I know I would be sending his soul straight to hell.''(
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my state, Missouri, uses lethal injection.\n\ni can't help but think that its too good a way for some of the prisoners to die.\n\na few years back we had 3-4 black men out for a little 'fun' on a weekend evening.  they found 2 gals and a guy out walking.  they beat the hell out of the guy---i don't know if he survived the beating or not.  they raped AND beat the girls and then threw them OFF A FRIGGIN BRIDGE INTO THE MISSISSIPPI!\n\nman, that ain't right. so they're caught, becase they were BRAGGIN about it!  they are tried and convicted and spend the next 15 or so years on death row appealing their sentence.   \n\nthen when all appeals are exhausted and our governor won't issue the bastards a pardon, they are led into a little room, an iv is set up, a button is pushed and a series of three drugs are infused into the prisoner.  the first puts the bastard to sleep, the next paralyzes his breathing and the third stops his heart.   to me, this is just TOO easy a way to go after what they did to the 3 white people almost 20 years go.\n\nand of course, there were the usual gang of idiots outside the prison protesting the "unfair" and "inhumane" treatment of the prisoners.   puhleeze!\n\ni'd say lethal injection--it gets the job done and is cheap.  probably not as cheap as a bullet or a few jolts of electricity, but it works,
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Its made up of several B complexes. It burns when they inject all those B vitamins into the blood and makes you hot. But that goes away in a few minutes.
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why does the needle have to be sterilized for a lethal injection???