14 Facts About Lethal injection

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person for the express purpose of causing rapid death.

Lethal injection was used in the Philippines until the country re-abolished the death penalty in 2006.

Lethal injection gained popularity in the late 20th century as a form of execution intended to supplant other methods, notably electrocution, gas inhalation, hanging and firing squad, that were considered to be less humane.

Guatemalan law still allows for the death penalty and lethal injection is the sole method allowed, but no penalties have been carried out since 2000 when the country experienced the live televised double executions of Amilcar Cetino Perez and Tomas Cerrate Hernandez.

Export of drugs to be used for lethal injection was banned by the European Union in 2011, together with other items under the EU Torture Regulation.

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Missouri and, before the abolition of capital punishment, Delaware, uses or used a lethal injection machine designed by Massachusetts-based Fred A Leuchter consisting of two components: the delivery module and the control module.

The specific lethal injection procedures, including the drug or drugs used, are a state secret and not publicly known.

The use of lethal injection method was approved by the government in June 2010, adopted in 2011 and only executed in 2013.

Lethal injection has been used in cases of euthanasia to facilitate voluntary death in patients with terminal or chronically painful conditions.

For example, courts have found that lethal injection as practiced in California, Florida, and Tennessee is unconstitutional.

Opponents of lethal injection have voiced concerns that abuse, misuse and even criminal conduct is possible when there is not a proper chain of command and authority for the acquisition of death-inducing drugs.

Opponents of lethal injection believe that it is not actually painless as practiced in the United States.

Study published in 2007 in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Medicine suggested that "the conventional view of lethal injection leading to an invariably peaceful and painless death is questionable".

Post mortem examinations of inmates executed by lethal injection have revealed a common finding of heavily congested lungs consistent with pulmonary edema.