What I find funny is that the current cocktail for lethal injections has minimal other therapeutic uses, yet there are many other cocktails that are commonly used that, when given in higher doses, would give the affect desired.
For example. Given a high enough does of Versed and Succs, the patient (Victim?) will enter a state were they will be fully paralyzed and in an amnesic state. Then administering a large bolus of Potassium Chloride (KCl) will effectively paralyze the heart and throw it into a lethal arrhythmia. There would be no outward signs of suffering and the patient would not be conscious throughout.
Versed and Succs are used in identical forms for Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) and other treatments that consciousness would be detrimental to the patient (Resetting a severely dislocated Joint). KCl is used to suppress heart dysrythmias and hypokalemia, in smaller doses.
I don't see the need for outdated methods when humane and commonly used drugs are easily available.
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