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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
The article seems to differ from what the radio said. On the radio this morning, they said that the drug they injected the guy with was not used before in Arizona, but used in two other states (looks like Oklahoma and Ohio according to the article). In both those cases, the drug was botched (article says one was due to improper administration?). So if this drug screwed up twice, why did Arizona go ahead with it? Messed up stuff right there.
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The article also quotes two anesthetists who suggest the drug(s) acted exactly the way they would have expected them to. Which begs the question then, who picks the drug and dosage?
From the OP link.
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Anesthesiology experts say they’re not surprised that the combination of drugs took so long to kill Wood.
“This doesn’t actually sound like a botched execution. This actually sounds like a typical scenario if you used that drug combination,” said Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Sibert was speaking on behalf of the California Society of Anesthesiologists.
Sibert said the sedative midazolam would not completely render Wood incapacitated. If he’d felt pain or been conscious, he would have been able to open his eyes and move, she said. The other drug was the painkiller hydromorphone.
“It’s fair to say that those are drugs that would not expeditiously achieve (death),” said Daniel Nyhan, a professor and interim director at the anesthesiology department at Johns Hopkins medical school.
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That's a huge statement given that is what they were setting out to do.