2006-06-30 04:21:58 · 17 answers · asked by greebo 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Cost.
They come sterilized because it is a national regulation for all needle manufactures. To get unsterilized needles would require a whole new process that would be expensive and unneeded.
2006-06-30 04:26:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Brian 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It is bizarre. Oh, the world we live in.....!!
But think about this one:
Police catches the criminal, beats him to pulp. He can barely walk. Then, the police gets him into his cruiser.
What does the police do at this point? Holds the criminal's head very carefully and guides him gently into the rear seat so that he won't bump his head against the roof of the car.
Go figure.
Here is another one:
An inmate is in the deathrow. He was about to be put to death next day. He has a heart attack the previous night. The jail warden rushes him to hospital, gives him all the medical assistance, revives him. Brings him in. Then gives him lethal to kill him. This has happened, I am not making this up.
2006-06-30 11:35:27 · answer #2 · answered by Nightrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They use sterilized needles, prepackaged not enclaved at the correctional facility. Health code requirements is one reason why. And in some states when someone dies from unother than natural causes and autopsy is required. Wouldn't that be peachy, execute a person send them for autopsy and they find something unother than the chemicals used for the injection procedure in the deceased's system? Like Clorox. Inmates love spiking stuff with clorox.
2006-06-30 11:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by midnightdealer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Health and safety laws. With any execution if you were to survive you are able to walk free. Like the law you can't be tried for the same offence you can't be executed twice for the same crime. If the needle isn't sterilised and you survive you could sue. This happened to my mate Harry. He died from an infection he received form the needle after he survived his execution sadly before he had time to litigate. He could have been on to a nice little earner
2006-06-30 11:29:44 · answer #4 · answered by Zecca 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard once that if the lethal injecion is called off and the prisoner gets a reprieve he could sue the state for using a dirty needle.
2006-07-01 11:20:18 · answer #5 · answered by AARONLEE AND SASHA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First - cruel and unusual punishment under the constitution - this IS a medical procedure, and cruel and unusual punishment might get him off.
Second - imagine, just as the final fluid is about to be pushed, the governor calls with a pardon, or someone came forward and confessed, and they wake him back up only to die of a staph infection a week later.
2006-06-30 11:25:02 · answer #6 · answered by thedavecorp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because if by chance the guy doesn't die and gets and infection form the dirty needle he can sue the government for neglect. Irony go figure.
2006-06-30 11:25:03 · answer #7 · answered by curiosity 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because the bacteria on the needle could neutralize the injection
2006-06-30 11:24:07 · answer #8 · answered by H2O POLO BOY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just sop, and to not give the bleeding heart liberals something to whine about, i think we should use the same needle, and cut down on all the poison but the one that does the killing, actually we should reuse the heroin and other drugs that have been confiscated and pump them so full of it that they die from overdose, with the same rusty needle
2006-06-30 11:25:38 · answer #9 · answered by thale138 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they still have to comply with medical standards because the
the convicts are still alive at the time of injection!
2006-06-30 11:31:56 · answer #10 · answered by bratshree 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋