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why is it that the one who administers the toxin first cleans the skin with alcohol like they do when giving shots or taking blood? It's not as if there are any concerns about getting an infection. I know this is a bit of a morbid question, but I'm curious to hear your opinions.

2006-12-07 20:33:52 · 3 answers · asked by EnigmaGirl 3 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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There are several reasons for this. Apart from its usefulness as an antiseptic, alcohol causes blood vessels to rise to the surface, making it easier to insert the needle.

More important, there's a chance the prisoner's sentence might be delayed or commuted at the last minute.

It's happened before. In October, 1983 condemned murderer James Autry was strapped to a gurney for an hour in a Texas prison with saline solution dripping into his arm. (He was awake the whole time, incidentally.)

At about the time he was scheduled to die he was told he had received a stay of execution. He was returned to his cell and not executed until the following March. Whatever you think of the death penalty, you wouldn't want the guy to die of sheer carelessness.

Which brings us to what I think is the real reason for swabbing the arm--it allows the executioners to think of themselves as professionals doing a job rather than killers.

2006-12-07 20:42:02 · answer #1 · answered by Lorene 4 · 0 0

The only reason to clean the skin w/ alcohol would be to keep the person administering the lethal injection away from any bacteria that the condemned person might have.

2006-12-07 20:37:57 · answer #2 · answered by brittany 3 · 0 0

deadly Inhection has been scientifically shown to be a extra human type of execution subsequently, the U. S. states have followed it because the vast form one type of life ending skill. even with the undeniable fact that, each and each and every state maintains that it really is the right of the guy to be done to make your thoughts up on which kind of lack of life they could want. there is no state that has electrocution because the commonly used skill for ending up capital punishment sentences. In 1983, the final assembly gave lack of life row inmates the alternative to make your thoughts up on lack of life by deadly injection.

2016-11-24 22:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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