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Thomas Youk
A lethal injection is exactly what it's name is. It's a lethal dose of a harmful drug or something along the same line. An overdose of a certain drug can also be called a lethal injection. The lethal injection is injected into the arm or where ever on the person and there is so much of that drug (or it's poison) that it causes your heart to stop beating and you die.
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.
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.
The lethal injection takes approximately 1:30 minutes to kill an adult.
That will vary by jurisdiction. Timothy McVeigh's simply stated: Lethal Injection.
Robert Charles Comer executed May 23 2007 by lethal injection
Charles Brooks, Jr. was executed in Huntsville Prison, Huntsville, TX by lethal injection.
Most people cannot be killed by pepper spray. It's just an irritant to most of the population. If a person is severely allergic to pepper, it might be lethal. Just as peanut butter might be lethal to a person who is severely allergic to peanuts.
In "The Giver," release is a term used to describe the act of euthanizing an individual in the community. It involves injecting a lethal dose of medication into the person to eliminate them from society. The community members are not aware that release actually means death, as they are shielded from the truth of what happens to those who are released.
Because cruel and unusual punishment is both unconstitutional and morally impermissible - by swabbing the arm they dull the pain of the needle insertion, as the injection itself is not designed to cause physical pain.
The First Person was: Charles Brooks, Jr. that was the first person to get Lethal Ingection. Ansuwer By: Tyler Shaw