how is an execution performed?

Answer 1

That depends on what state you reside in, It could be lethal injection, gas chamber, and in rare occasions in 2 states death by long drop hanging.

Answer 2

Last meal is provided - Prisons try to provide whatever meal is requested by the condemned prisoner.
Warden and chaplain visit - The warden and the state-appointed chaplain visit with the inmate and stay until the end of the execution.
Witnesses arrive - There is no contact allowed between witnesses and the condemned prisoner. Witnesses are typically restricted to the witness room adjacent to the execution chamber, and are instructed to remain silent.
Inmate makes final preparations - In some states, male inmates are given a fresh pair of pants and a shirt, female inmates a dress, and the prisoner is allowed to shower before getting dressed. In other states, the inmate must remove all outer clothing.
Heart monitor is connected - The inmate is connected to an electrocardiogram (EKG) machine, which will be monitored for flat line to determine when the heart stops and death has occurred.
Once properly dressed, the inmate is taken to the execution chamber. They either walk on their own or are restrained to and rolled in on a gurney. Inmates who walk to the execution chamber are then restrained on a gurney or table either inside the chamber or in an adjacent preparation room. The inmate is secured to the gurney or table with lined ankle and wrist restraints. A sheet may be placed over the prisoner. After the prisoner has been restrained, two intravenous (IV) tubes are inserted by the execution team, one tube in each arm. The intravenous tubes are threaded through an opening in the wall that leads to the anteroom, where the executioner is located. Once the IV tubes are inserted, a saline solution begins flowing into them.
The drugs are administered, in this order:

Anesthetic - Sodium thiopental, which has the trademark name Pentothal, puts the inmate into a deep sleep. This drug is a barbiturate that induces general anesthesia when administered intravenously. It can reach effective clinical concentrations in the brain within 30 seconds, according to an Amnesty International report. For surgical operations, patients are given a dose of 100 to 150 milligrams over a period of 10 to 15 seconds. For executions, as many as 5 grams (5,000 mg) of Pentothal may be administered. This in itself is a lethal dose. It's believed by some that after this anesthetic is delivered, the inmate doesn't feel anything.

Saline solution flushes the intravenous line.

Paralyzing agent - Pancuronium bromide, also known as Pavulon, is a muscle relaxant that is given in a dose that stops breathing by paralyzing the diaphragm and lungs. Conventionally, this drug takes effect in one to three minutes after being injected. In many states, this drug is given in doses of up to 100 milligrams, a much higher dose than is used in surgical operations -- usually 40 to 100 micrograms per one kilogram of body weight. Other chemicals that can be used as a paralyzing agent include tubocurarine chloride and succinylcholine chloride.

Saline solution flushes the intravenous line.

Toxic agent (not used by all states) - Potassium chloride is given at a lethal dose in order to interrupt the electrical signaling essential to heart functions. This induces cardiac arrest.

Within a minute or two after the last drug is administered, a physician or medical technician declares the inmate dead.

Answer 3

It depends on the state. Different states have different ways that they put convicted felons to death. The most common is via lethal injection. The gas chamber is often used as well, and the electric chair is still used in some states.

Answer 4

It really depends on the state. You can be executed by a needle that has posion. The electric chair perhaps. In the old days you got hung. Or got your head taken off with the guillotine.

Answer 5

lethal injection: they give the condemned an IV - inject him with chemicals to make him unconscious, and then with chemicals to stop his heart and lungs.

electric chair: they attach electrodes to the condemned's head and leg. first they shock him with a quick very high voltage shock to break the skin's resistance to the electricity, then a longer, lower voltage current to finish the job.

hanging: (i think a couple of states still permit this as an option) - rope put around the condemned's neck and a trap door opened under him. if done correctly, it breaks his neck instantly. otherwise, he chokes to death.

Answer 6

Lethal injection- the prisoner is injected with sleeping dose and the fatal injections are made to kill.
Electric chair - the prisoner is made to sit on the chair and clamped on it by metal bars. Electricity is run on the chair for the killing.

Answer 7

Can't help you on all of them, but here is a good link on Lethal Injection

http://people.howstuffworks.com/lethal-injection.htm

Here is the history of the electric chair:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/chair/1.html

Answer 8

there are numerous types of executions through the different countrys. ? be more specific

Answer 9

Which type? Which state? Here's a link to give you the breaksown of each type.