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| Okla. alters execution procedure |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/21/2006 |
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CHICKASHA, OK - Oklahoma has changed the way it administers fatal drugs during executions amid three court challenges to the process. Under the revised procedure, a death row inmate will receive a larger dose of anesthesia before the drug that stops the inmate's heart is administered. Richard Kirby, the general counsel for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, said the changes were the result of recommendations by an expert who testified during a recent challenge by a death row inmate. Dr. Mark Dershwitz, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, suggested changing the procedure that had been in place since 2005 because there was no reason to administer the prescribed drugs and then repeat them in reverse order...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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