why do they serialize a needle before lethal injection?
602412
Very good question.  Seems silly now that you brought it up.
1127492
These types of DNA are used to create a much more accurate diagnosis of DNA samples lef tfrom teh crime\n\nemail me a kkstrong0@yahoo.com if you have further questions and ill try to tell you what i know
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There has been a lot on the news lately about DNA proving people innocent. I'm all for that but, like you, believe if someone commits a crime that requires the death sentence that's what they should get. Death. When you have someone confess to a murder and relates the details and is able to take you to the body what else do we need to know? I also don't believe the inmate should know when they're going to die. Their victim(s) (in case of murderers) didn't know when they were going to die and have time to tell their family that they loved them and see them one more time. Unfortunately, we can't punish the guilty inmate without punishing his innocent family. \n\nI would, however, like to see a plan implemented that would make use of prisoners for life or death row inmates to be utilized to test affects of new products and drugs for human consumption. I have never believed in using animals for testing. If you want to know how a product affects a human then test it on a human. No more guessing at what's going on. A human can verbalize what an animal can't. Not only could the testing time be possibly shortened and the product able to be used by the general public much sooner, but would give them the opportunity to give something back to the society they have taken from. Along with this their families could hold their heads up once more in the fact that their convicted family member IS giving something back instead of only taking. Not only would testing time be saved but possibly money as well. Not to mention the accuracy of the testing to begin with.
58310
I would suppose that it's in case the needle acidentally stabs someone else.
381786
Come back and answer this question if, God forbid, someone you love more than life itself is brutally tortured for several hours, being sliced up and slowly burned alive.  If that had happened to someone I love, I would want to be the one who pulls the switch!!!  Lethal injection is too good for a monster like that. The monster confessed to the crime and showed no remorse; he even bragged about it.  Talk to the victim's parents and you may not think it is so barbaric!
661567
They don't sterilize needles for lethal injections, stupid. Needles COME sterile. Haven't you ever seen or known anyone who was dependent on insulin or heroin? They don't RE USE needles. They just pull a new one out of the package and use it. There is NO SUCH THING as sterilizing a needle. Questions like this really get under my skin. No pun intended. -beaver (Rock Island, Illinois)
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It depends on how long the lysate was thawed...anything over 5-10 minutes and I would throw it out.  Also, if it's thawed/frozen again more than once, I would throw it out.  If you were going to extract DNA it wouldn't be so critical, but with RNA...well, you know how fragile it is!!
106065
Yes. There are a lot of other ways like Using infected needles, etc.\nYou can find a lot of info at http://www.thebody.com/
435075
die injection? u probably have scared the h*ll out of the asker. dont worry baby we dont need u dead to get a contrast image. penelope was talking about dye. the idea of using dye is to get a better picture of the liquid filled spaces like the blood vessels or the ventricles in the brain. in practice without contrast MRI is more commonly done than contrast MRI.
107996
That's really funny. My friends brother had an idea sort of like that. He said that instead of wasting money on special effects movie companies should just take death row inmates and use them. I acctually think that's almost a good idea. The death sentance is way too easy for some of the people on it, so this would be a way to make it a bit more fitting.
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You can ask them if they could possibly put some novacaine on the area where the needle will be inserted, but in all honesty, I was deathly afraid to have an IV before the first time I had one, and when I DID get one, it didn't hurt at all. I know you're probably thinking that it hurts while it's inside of you for the amount of time it is, but you don't even know it's there. They'll most likely pull it out before you even wake up. They did mine. Good luck to you!
95823
don't want the person to get an infection and get sick do you?  (I mean incase the execution is called off for some reason.)\n\nI wonder why we have to be kind about executions in the first place.  The condemned cry "Cruel and Unusual". . .why cried "cruel and unusual" for the victims they killed?
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Assuming that you use the syringes legally, you should have a sharps container to put them into. You can then usually take that to the local hospital for disposal.  My cousin does this. The hospital allows her to exchange the container for an empty one about every other month. So far as I know, the don't charge her for doing that. Hope this helps.
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Lethal injection is uniquely American. \nYes, it is an unusual punishment for the non-Americans.  \n\nDeath penalty is irrevocable. It is a direct violation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yes, lethal injection is a cruel punishment like any other capital punishment.\n\nMore than half the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law and practice. \n\n86 countries for all crimes, \n11 countries for ordinary crimes, \n25 countries in practice.\n\nUSA, -the world role model for human rights-, is among the countries such as Zimbabwe, Qatar, Iraq, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Congo, Chad, Sudan, Iran, Tanzania, Comoros, North Korea, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Ghana, China … which are just ‘retain’ the death penalty for 'ordinary crimes'. \n\nOn the other hand, it looks like lethal injection is currently the favoured method of execution in USA. The statistics for the period of 1976-2002 are;\n\nLethal injection - 618 executions \nElectrocution - 150 executions \nGas chamber - 11 executions\nHanging - 3 executions.\nFiring Squad - 2 executions. \n\nLethal injection is considered to be more humane than others. \n\nActually, lethal injection is just humane for the ‘witnesses’ not ‘the person being executed’.No matter how you dress it up, you are still killing a human being.\n\nIt is known that in about 40 % of the cases where lethal injection has been used, there have been misuses and it has taken as long as 45 minutes for the condemned to die. \n\nIf the main consideration is truly to be ‘humane’ to ‘the person being executed’, why not the ‘firing squad’ ? Such a death is said to be faster and less painful than lethal injection.
1145497
There is a stinging pain with the anesthetic needle and the anesthetic being injected. The biopsy needle may be felt as a deep pressure and dull pain. This pain is sometimes felt in the shoulder.
662212
With recent advances in DNA technology, they have been able to retest crime data from inmates who had received life sentences.  The study I had heard (you should do a search on the internet) is that 25% of the cases tested prove that the person convicted of the crime was innocent.  \n\nThen there are economic issues associated with the death penalty.  In theory we would think that putting someone to death would be cheaper than making them stay in prison for life.  Sadly the opposite is true (do a search for exact numbers).  The system is so overwhelmed with appeals, etc that we end up paying a lot more money to put someone to death than to keep them in prison.\n\nThen there is the fact that America spends more money on the prison system than on libraries.  We are a country focused on punishment for crime, but not teaching people the way to avoid a life of crime by being a productive member of society.
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.