Lethal Injection Research Paper

The Lethal Injection Lethal Injections is a series of immoral injections commonly used for Capital Punishment. The goal of the Lethal Injection is to eventually paralyse the entire body until the inmate is unable to breathe.These injections causes pain to the inmate, therefore the Lethal Injection should be abolished. In the late 1930’s, physicians in Nazi Germany first used the lethal injection for a euthanasia program for the country’s disabled children and adults. In 1967, when the Supreme Court restored the death penalty Bill Wiseman, an Oklahoma pastor and legislator and Jay Chapman, the state's medical examiner searched for a method to execute inmates without pain because in the past gas chambers,firing squad, hanging, and electrocution have been used.
This is a fast acting drug that depresses the activity of the central nervous system. This injection does not serve as a painkiller that numbs the pain nerves, but instead rapidly puts the person into a state of unconsciousness that is so deep that it makes pain undetectable. The drug increases the effect of GABA, which is a neurotransmitter that depresses brain activity. The person becomes unconscious in about 30 seconds. The second injection is saline, which is a neutral substance commonly used to push drugs into the bloodstream quickly. Pancuronium bromide is administered next. This acts as a neuromuscular blocker, preventing communication between the nerve and the muscle. The result of this is complete muscle paralysis. Muscle paralysis causes the person to go into respiratory arrest since the diaphragm is a muscle. The diaphragm pulls air into the lungs, but stops. The final injection is another saline flush. This dosage floods the heart with different charged particles and interrupts the heart's electrical signaling. Stopping it from beating. The average length time from the first injection to death is about 8.4