The US Supreme Court debates about lethal injection

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I was reading this news and it is really horrifying to read about what a condemned person has to go through before dying under the lethal injection capital punishment. "They claim the first drug -- sodium thiopental -- which renders the prisoner unconscious, wears off too quickly. Some prisoners are awake and able to feel pain as the procedure continues, the condemned men contend. The second drug -- pancuronium bromide -- paralyzes all muscle movement, then prevents the condemned person from speaking out and expressing awareness of the pain, according to the men's attorneys. The third drug, potassium chloride, which induces cardiac arrest, is "excruciatingly painful in a conscious person," the inmates and lawyers say in their court papers." Reading and knowing this should be enough deterrent to people who think or plan to commit crime that could get them the death penalty and yet crime is still a big issue in the US. Anybody has any theory to share. Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/07/sctous.injection/index.html