Of the 32 states that have the death penalty, only eight have single-drug protocols for executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
In our post-9/11 world, government secrecy has become an accepted norm, whether the topic is national security, government spending or constitutional protocols for executions.
A judge ruled that the state's newest protocol for execution by lethal injection is an improvement, but still falls short of providing constitutional protections.
As the state awaits the Supreme Court's decision on lethal injection, which is expected this month, it has yet to adopt a protocol for execution by nitrogen hypoxia.
The Drug Enforcement Administration seized Georgia's sodium thiopental supply this week, after a complaint that the sedative used in the three-drug protocol for execution by lethal injection was imported illegally.
Texas's supply is running out and it has now announced that, following the lead of Oklahoma, it will switch to the use of pentobarbital as the sedative in a three-drug protocol for executions.
The state of Oklahoma, which developed the nation's first lethal injection protocol for executions, may soon approve what lawmakers say is a new, even more humane way of killing people.
Cardiovascular Disease is a timely volume in which the theory and pr- ciples of each method are described in the Introduction section, followed by a detailed description of the materials and equipment needed, and step-by-step protocols for successful execution of the method.
This does not put considerable restrictions on the description of the existing protocols as most protocols are designed for execution of experiments in the real physical world by manipulating real physical objects.
Results: The data collected enable us to establish a standardized protocol for the execution of the test.
