good question for all you thinkers out there!
2007-07-11 16:17:59 · 11 answers · asked by Frunk A 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Yes they do, I saw a convict get prepped for the big "L". Everything was just like he was going in for a life saving surgery. Weird huh?
2007-07-11 18:34:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, definitely yes. The person who sets an intravenous line access follows the so called "sterile technique" as the standard practice. The person who is supposed to receive lethal injection is still human whatever his circumstances might be thus still has the right to be traeted as human. Besides, the person who sets in an intravenous line does not administer the drug at the same time. The access is just set and an extension tubing set that goes behind a blind are set up (There are many extension tubings actually with only one that goes to the person so the one who will administer the lethal dose won't know he was the one administered the lethal dose. So, anyone that are involved along the process are just following the rule of profession.A swab of alcohol won't be that costly anyway as compared to the amount of the drug that will be given and it will be just seconds to swab the alcohol before pricking the vein. A medical worker who has been used to the practice is doing the swabbing automatically-just like a habit as we can say.
2007-07-12 13:55:27 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The alcohol is used as a disinfectant to clean the skin at the injection site so as to prevent infection from entering the blood stream through the needle
2007-07-12 00:47:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually they do. Now was it George Carlin or Robin Williams who used that same question in their comedy act? I always thought it strange as well. And what is with the special last meal? It is not as if they will ever use that nutrition. If they are truly criminal, I say make them eat something horrible, like my mother's three day old goulash that she used to serve us ("until it's all gone!"). Then they would know they were criminals and be truly sorry, maybe even glad to be executed.
2007-07-11 23:28:21 · answer #4 · answered by Iamstitch2U 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They clean the injection site before they put the needle in. That is just standard proceedure for setting up an IV.
2007-07-11 23:28:09 · answer #5 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
part of the Hippocratic oath is for a doctor to do good and not harm his patients. i don't know if an actual doctor carries out the whole procedure, but if he does i guess he would have a cleaner conscience by sanitizing all the equipment before the person is put to death.
2007-07-12 01:02:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The needles are sterilized as well.
The execution could be stayed at any point, so it's important to do everything by the book.
2007-07-11 23:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by Darrell D 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
too easy...why are they worried about introducing bacteria into the body of someone they are about to execute???...because it is the medically proper way to give an injection...
2007-07-11 23:41:48 · answer #8 · answered by mago 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Also, in addition to being stayed, everything must be sterile for the technicians and doctors as well.
2007-07-11 23:27:18 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they do. It helps the technician keep a clinical attitude (i.e. that he's just performing a job--not killing someone).
2007-07-11 23:21:38 · answer #10 · answered by Digital Haruspex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋