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Death by lethal injection is used to carry out capital punishment, when a person if first put death by first putting the subject to sleep and then stopping the heart and breathing respectively.
Lethal injection was first suggested in 1888 as a cheaper alternative to hanging. Oklahoma was the first state to adopt what's called the Chapman Protocol, in 1977; the first use of lethal injection was in Texas in 1982.
for lethal injection 3 drugs are used, the one that kills the condemned is sodium penthanol, which depresses cardiovascular function.
Lethal injection or electrocution
Pancuronium Bromide stop the movement of muscles by competing with acetylcholine. This means once the muscle stop contracting a person can't breath and therefore pancuronium can be used in the lethal injection.
Because that is common medical practise.
No they did not. Hanging is not used in this time period. But they did execute him with lethal injection.
Lethal injection is the execution method for states that have the death penalty.
yes Idaho and Oklahoma have the firing squad as a method of capital punishment.Answer:None of them do really. Lethal injection is always the first choice for the death penalty. All other methods are only used if lethal injection are found unconstituational.Utah no longer offers the firing squad as an option, but would allow it only for inmates who chose this method prior to its elimination .Oklahoma offers firing squad only if lethal injection and electrocution are found unconstitutional.
Death by lethal injection hower electrocution may be used if the prisoner requests that method,
Nowadays, the instrument used for death penalty is the lethal injection. Before, we have the electric chair, hanging and guillotine.
Lethal injection is used in all 32 states that have capital punishment. Some states use electrocution (electric chair), five use the gas chamber, one uses the firing squad, and Delaware and Washington use hanging as alternatives to lethal injection.