Death Row Inmate to be Excecuted Using Drug Used on Animals
by Death row inmate to receive pentobarbital in lethal injection.
A death in Oklahoma convicted receive a drug commonly used to euthanize animals Thursday due to national shortage of sodium thiopental, the drug generally used as a sedative in its execution cocktail of three drugs.
the execution of John David Duty will be the last in the United States in 2010 and is believed to be the first in the country to use lethal pentobarbital injection.
Duty was convicted and sentenced to death for strangling his cellmate, 22-year-old Curtis Wise, with shoelaces while serving three life sentences for rape, robbery and shooting with intent to kill a sentence 1978.
Duty wrote a letter to the mother of Wise in December 2001, admitting to killing Wise and saying: “It’s not like the movies, it took a while.”
Sodium thiopental is a rapid onset, short-acting barbiturate that causes unconsciousness. rights lawyers argued that the pentobarbital was risky and dangerous. But a Texas judge disagreed and last month approved its use in place of sodium thiopental.
The sedative is the first drug in the lethal injection protocol Oklahoma. It is followed by vecuronium bromide, a drug that causes paralysis and stops breathing. The third drug, potassium chloride, stops the heart.
Pentobarbital is used similarly for euthanizations animals.
Service execution is scheduled for 6 pm at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma. For his last meal, the service has requested a double cheeseburger with mayonnaise, cheese meters long Coney dog with extra mustard and onion, lime juice cherry and banana milkshake from Sonic.
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