Because Williams is obese, his lawyers argue that his execution would be "a slow, agonizing death experienced as suffocation".
All of this was a far cry from the suffocation I experienced in the domestic family environment.
Madeline Cohen, an attorney for Warner, said he was executed with a drug that is "not approved for general anaesthesia" and "because Oklahoma injected Mr Warner with a paralytic tonight, acting as a chemical veil, we will never know whether he experienced the intense pain of suffocation and burning that would result from injecting a conscious person with rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride".
"Because Oklahoma injected Mr. Warner with a paralytic tonight, acting as a chemical veil, we will never know whether he experienced the intense pain of suffocation and burning that would result from injecting a conscious person with rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride," Cohen said.
Anxiety or fear of suffocation was also experienced by some.
The fentanyl and diazepam "may be trying to block the experience of suffocation," said Joel B. Zivot, an Emory University anesthesiologist who has served as an expert witness in legal challenges to execution protocols.
Also included was part III of the HTQ focussing on four traumatic events (yes/no experienced) that may involve head injury (e.g. drowning, suffocation).
Global warming is expected to affect growth and life histories of diatoms [ 75- 83], and several studies have already reported the negative effect of diatoms and other epiphytes on seagrasses [ 84- 86], which may experience mortality due to suffocation by excessive growth of associated epiphytes and macroalgae.
When it comes to anxiety, Strang and colleagues [ 46] found that patients experienced high levels of anxiety related to COPD symptoms, mostly in connection with the themes death anxiety (fear of suffocation, awareness of death, fear of dying, separation anxiety) and life anxiety (fear of living, fear of the future).
The main reasons for a child to experience lack of breathing and/or heart rate generally involve: drowning, choking, suffocation, electrical shock, head trauma, serious injury, bleeding, poisoning and lung disease.
