Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.

2025年1月15日 · Lethal injection—now the most widely used method of execution in the United States—was first adopted by the U.S. state of Oklahoma in 1977, because it was considered cheaper and more humane than either electrocution or lethal gas (see gas chamber).

Though lethal injection has been used for a majority of the executions carried out in the modern era, it is plagued by problematic executions and controversy. All states and the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment use lethal injec­tion as their pri­ma­ry method of exe­cu­tion.

Today, every state that has the death penal­ty autho­rizes exe­cu­tion by lethal injec­tion. When this method is used, the con­demned per­son is usu­al­ly bound to a gur­ney and a mem­ber of the exe­cu­tion team posi­tions sev­er­al heart mon­i­tors on this skin.

2023年11月28日 · Here’s what happens in one state during a typical three-drug lethal injection, the most common method of enacting the death penalty where it is legal in the US.

2018年3月12日 · Lethal injection has been proposed since the 19th century, with interest resurging in Nazi Germany, but the seed was planted for the institution we know today by Jay Chapman, the chief medical examiner of Oklahoma. He was charged with coming up with a humane way to put criminals to death by a state representative in 1977.

ONE DRUG: Nine states and the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment have used a sin­gle-drug method for exe­cu­tions – a lethal dose of an anes­thet­ic (Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Washington).

2024年11月1日 · Lethal injection is the most common method of executing prisoners in the USA, touted as a humane and painless method. The medical evidence suggests that prisoners are experiencing profound distress and the method of death is akin to drowning.

2015年11月30日 · Is lethal injection the most humane method of execution? Is there another way? Should we eliminate the death penalty altogether? Here’s some of the best reporting on the practice.

2025年1月16日 · The Justice Department announced yesterday that it has rescinded the protocol for federal executions after a review raised serious concerns about whether lethal injections of pentobarbital cause ”unnecessary pain and suffering.” In 2021, the attorney general ordered the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy to undertake a comprehensive review of the single-drug lethal injection ...