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Rights group claims more than a dozen executed inmates may have suffered 'excrutiating pain' A study by Human Rights Watch set to be released Monday indicates that more than a dozen inmates executed by lethal injection throughout the nation may have suffered "excrutiating pain," according to a story set for Monday's edition of the L.A. Times, RAW STORY has found. "The problem with the three-stage lethal injection drug procedure is that it may mask rather than prevent pain, critics contend," the L.A. Times reports. Excerpts from the article written by Maura Dolan and Henry Weinstein: # Although lethal injection has become the predominant method of execution around the U.S., it initially was adopted three decades ago without scientific or medical studies, on the recommendation of an Oklahoma state legislator who wanted a more humane procedure. Since then, objections have arisen in many of the 37 other states that adapted Oklahoma's procedures. While some death penalty proponents are offended that the state is obliged to limit inmates' suffering during execution, the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1976 decision reinstating the death penalty cautioned that officials must avoid "the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain." .... Dr. Jay Chapman, the former Oklahoma medical examiner who played a key role in developing the original lethal injection procedure, told a Human Rights Watch researcher, "I never knew we would have complete idiots injecting these drugs. Which we seem to have." # The 65-page Human Rights Watch report, "So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States," can be read at this link. ---------------------------------------------------
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