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These laws are meant to shield the people involved in administering executions.

The Death Penalty Information Center also notes that, because doctors are ethically prohibited from administering execution drugs, inexperienced medical workers can sometimes make mistakes like injecting the drugs into a muscle, causing "extreme pain".

Midazolam is used to render condemned inmates unconscious before two other drugs are administered in executions.

The high court's ruling on lethal injection comes down to the whether a drug administered in executions -- midazolam -- causes cruel and unusual punishment banned by the Constitution.

The 2011 law the judge found to be unconstitutional states: "The identity of all persons who participate in or administer the execution process and persons who supply the drugs, medical supplies or medical equipment for the execution shall be confidential and shall not be subject to discovery in any civil or criminal proceedings".

In its decision, the Pulaski County Circuit Court said the ADC had both too much leeway in choosing lethal drugs and too few standards guiding how prison staff should be trained to administer the execution.

President Barack Obama described the case as "deeply troubling" and ordered a review into the wider use of the death penalty by the US Department of Justice, which is hampered by the fact it has no jurisdiction over state-administered executions and still in the process of determining the remit of its inquiry.

In Iran, a man and a woman were stoned to death for extra-marital sex.The horrors of cruelly administered, or botched, execution are not confined to developing countries or to lands that follow the letter of hudud, traditional Islamic punishment.

He said Area 2 detectives beat him, staged mock executions and administered electric shocks to his testicles and penis, and he drew sketches of the alleged abuse.

Lockett died 43 minutes after the first execution drug was administered on 29 April, at the Oklahoma state penitentiary.

Mr. Qiu's brother said he heard from other people in the court that Mr. Qiu had asked why he needed a blood test when one was administered on the morning of the execution.