... says its original creator.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/30...ion/index.html
Apparently, there are three stages in the formula used for lethal injection executions:
Stage 1) Use of an anesthetic to leave the inmate unconscious.
Stage 2) Use of a paralytic to suffocate the individual.
Stage 3) Use of potassium chloride to induce cardiac arrest.
Some boggling accounts in the story linked above... like administrators of the injection inserting the needle in THE WRONG WAY?!! Or another incident when the needle was inserted too far, going completely through the vein and into the flesh of the arm?!!
Perhaps they just need to properly train these people...