Can you be revived after you had a lethal injection?

Answer 1

Good Damn Question.Because I wanna give someone a lethal injection with the best doctors in the world around to revive him.Once they bring him back to life and his vital signs are normal,I wanna kill his azz again!!!!!!!!! Ya feel me??

Answer 2

No lethal injection is when they put a high dose of potassium into ones body. Potassium and other ions will freeze the heart. Potassium is also used during an open heart surgery but a patient is connected to a heart and lung machine. That way the patients will have blood and oxygen in his system. During a lethal injection, the person if not connected to the heart and lung machine. So the heart freeze and there is no blood going around the body. The person can be revived if they are connected to the heart and lung machine.

Answer 3

Any of the three chemicals that are injected into a prisoner being executed is of a sufficient dose and concentration to kill them.

We're not exactly sure if we put the subject into great pain during the execution or not. We can't tell, because their ability to respond to pain is inhibited by the first drug that's introduced into their system.

The great debate on lethal injection right now is whether or not the subject feels the pain associated with the lungs inability to breathe and the heart's inability to beat. Imagine holding your head under water and not being able to breathe.

If the subject can feel this, but cannot respond to it, then lethal injection certainly is cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore constitutionally prohibited.

Answer 4

No, there are drugs in a lethal injection that stop the heart muscle completely.

From Wikipedia: After the condemned is fastened on the execution table, two intravenous catheters are inserted, one in each arm. Only one is used for the execution, the other is reserved as a backup in case the primary IV fails.

The arm of the condemned is swabbed with alcohol before the needle is inserted. Along with its antiseptic use, the alcohol also causes the blood vessels to rise to the skin's surface, making it easier to insert the needle. [1] The needles and equipment used are also sterilized. One reason for this is because the needles are standard medical products that are sterilized during manufacturing. Also, there is a chance that the prisoner could receive a stay of execution after the needles have been inserted as happened in the case of James Autry in October 1983 (he was executed eventually on 14 March 1984). Finally, it would also be a hazard for those handling unsterile equipment.

The intravenous injection is usually a mixture of compounds, designed to induce rapid unconsciousness followed by death through paralysis of respiratory muscles and/or by inducing cardiac hyperpolarization. The execution of the condemned in most states involves three separate injections:

1. Sodium thiopental: to induce a state of unconsciousness intended to last while the other two injections take effect.
2. Pancuronium/Tubocurarine: to stop all muscle movement except the heart. This causes muscle paralysis, collapse of the diaphragm, and would eventually cause death by asphyxiation.
3. Potassium chloride: to stop the heart from beating, and thus cause death: see cardiac arrest.

The drugs are not mixed externally as that can cause them to precipitate.

The intravenous tubing leads to a room next to the execution chamber, usually separated from the inmate by a curtain or wall. Usually some type of IV technician with certification to insert the IV performs that role, while the chemical technician, who is usually a member of the prison staff, orders, prepares, and loads the chemicals into the machine. After the curtain is opened to allow the witnesses to see inside the chamber, the condemned person will then be permitted to make a final statement. Following this, the warden will signal for the execution to commence, and the executioner(s), either prison staff or private citizens depending on the jurisdiction, will then activate the machine which mechanically delivers the three drugs in sequence. During the execution, the patient's cardiac rhythm is monitored and death is pronounced after cardiac activity stops. Death usually occurs within seven minutes, although the whole procedure can take up to 45 minutes. According to state law, if participation in the execution is prohibited for physicians, the death ruling is made by the state's Medical Examiner's Office. After confirmation that death has occurred, a coroner signs the executed individual’s death certificate.

Answer 5

I am just guessing. I believe that they give you like 4 injections.
1 to put you to sleep
1 to stop your breathing
1 to stop your heart
then the biggy.
If that is true then yes I think they could save you after the first 2 injections. Or maybe I've just read to many books and seen to many movies.

Answer 6

I don't think there would be anyway to get the drugs out of the system fast enough to do that. You would have to purge the blood stream really quickly, as well as restart the heart.

My bet would be no.

Answer 7

No the poison has already gone through your blood stream.

Answer 8

of course not it's lethal!

Answer 9

No way. You're dead and gone once it hits you!!!

Answer 10

my grandmother did and she still farting