Process of injecting poison for death row inmates

Compared with other forms of death sentence in history such as hanging, shooting . the death penalty with poison appears quite late, currently applied by many countries, especially the US.

When was the death penalty with poison?

This form of death appeared for the first time in 1982 in the United States, followed by China in 1997 and some other countries such as Thailand (2003), Guatemala (1996), Maldives and Vietnam (2013), Guatemala (canceled in 2000) and the Philippines (1999 but abandoned in 2006).

America is the first country to apply this method.(Imago photo / blicwinkel).

In particular, the United States is the country that uses this method the most, only 2004 to 2006, almost all forms of death are used this way.

The reason this form is popular in the United States is because on January 17, 1888, an American doctor named Julius Mount Bleyer offered it because it was cheaper than other forms of death.

On May 11, 1977, the state of Oklahoma was the first state to test the method of handling death row in this way when medical examiner Jay Chapman introduced the rite known as the Chapman rite to make the victim dead. quickly.

By 2004, this method was almost universal in most states, while the EU had banned the use of this form in 2011.

The procedure of injecting poison into death row inmates and injections into the victim

The word death is fixed on the tape.(MyAJC.com photo).

Usually in the United States, death row inmates will be injected with hand-poisoned drugs (each time there was time to do this, but it was canceled because it was easier to fail). The injected poison usually consists of 3 stages:

1. Stage 1 : Pentothol 5g (sodium thiopental) is a barbiturate general anesthetic that has a short release time, similar to thiobarbital.
2. Stage 2 : 100mg Pavulon (pancuronium bromide) causes the body of the polio victim.
3. Stage 3 : 100 mEq potassium chloride causes the heart to stop beating.

These toxins will normally be injected into the vein in each hand (but usually only one injection is needed, the other is only a precaution in case of failure), the victim is held on a bandage and poison. will infuse very quickly and almost cause immediate death.