Acetate Gate: What's An Executioner To Do?
The state may accuse the meddling death penalty abolitionists, but it hasn’t taken any potshots at the large pharmaceutical companies.
aNewDomain — Oklahoma inmate Charles Warner, 47, said his “body was on fire” after executioners used the wrong drug cocktail to execute him, according to an autopsy report released yesterday by the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Oklahoma falls again under the searing glare of the national spotlight over lack of transparency and for shrouding executioner-providers following the international spectacle of messed-up executions — now focusing on the maladministration of the three-drug series in Warner’s execution of the controversial sedative, Midazolam, the delivery of a paralytic, and the remaining drug supposed to be potassium chloride to stop the heart. See more: https://anewdomain.net/2015/10/12/acetate-gate-whats-executioner/