Who believes that lethal injection by sodium pentothal is humane?”
Sodium thiopental, better known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories), thiopental, thiopentone sodium, or trapanal, is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anaesthetic. It is an intravenous ultra-short-acting barbiturate. Sodium thiopental is a depressant and is sometimes used during interrogations—not to cause pain (in fact, it may have just the opposite effect), but to weaken the resolve of the subject and make him or her more compliant to pressure.[3] Thiopental is a core medicine in the World Health Organization’s “Essential Drugs List”, which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system. Barbiturates Main article: Barbiturate Barbiturates are a class of drugs that act on the GABAA receptor in the brain and spinal cord. The GABAA receptor is an inhibitory channel that decreases neuronal activity, and barbiturates enhance the inhibitory action of the GABAA receptor. Barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and alcohol all bind to the GABAA rec
Lethal injection involves injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs to cause death. The main applications of lethal injections are euthanasia and capital punishment. As a method for capital punishment, lethal injection gained popularity in the twentieth century as a form of execution meant to supplant methods – such as electrocution, hanging, firing squad, gas chamber, or decapitation – that were considered to be less humane. It is now the most common form of execution in the United States; in 2005, every American execution was conducted by lethal injection. However, the humaneness of lethal injection as a process of execution has been debated, with opponents citing reports of prolonged, apparently painful deaths. While proponents agree that a peaceful, painless death is the desired outcome, no satisfactory alternative has been proposed and adopted. Those who regard the death penalty per se as problematic argue that there is no acceptable way to kill another human being, and thus n
