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Article: Study questions use of 3-drug combination for lethal injections.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2007
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Byline: Bob LaMendola
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ The three-drug combination used for lethal injections in Florida and 36 other states does not reliably execute inmates and may leave them feeling pain as they die, University of Miami medical school researchers found in a study released Monday.
"Lethal injection protocols are not adequate to ensure a predictable, painless death," the researchers wrote in the journal Public Library of Science, Medicine.
In fact, inmates put to death by lethal injection may get less anesthetic _ pound for pound _ to knock them unconscious and deaden pain than do animals euthanized in lab experiments, the study ...