The Alabama Department of Corrections has offered to kill an
inmate facing an execution next month with the drug protocol he requested, one
never before used in an execution, provided the man consents to it, reported Buzzfeed.com.
Alabama’s current lethal injection protocol calls for three
drugs to be administered. The first is midazolam: A controversial sedative used
in several botched executions. The second is a drug that paralyzes the inmate.
And the third is a drug that stops the heart; it is undisputed that the drug
causes severe pain to a conscious person.
Death row inmates in Alabama have argued that the risk of
pain is too high to use the third drug, and offered up a few different ways
they could be killed. If death row inmates want to challenge their method of
execution, the Supreme Court has said they have to propose better alternatives.
One of the options they proposed is to use a single dose of
midazolam, the controversial sedative, and no other drugs. In previous executions
throughout the United States, midazolam has always been paired with other
execution drugs.
U.S. District Court Judge Keith Watkins ordered the state to
produce a one-drug execution protocol with only midazolam by early next week. The inmate, will have to decide within 48 hours whether he will consent
to that execution or possibly face the three-drug protocol.
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