Thursday, May 22, 2008

Lethal Injection (before they use it)

For the persons last 24 hours they get visitation rights. Their friends, families, attorneys, and many other people are allowed to visit them. They visit them in the dead watch or a visitation area. The last few hours of their lives they start the preparations. They do not do this in every state that has the lethal injection. First they give them their last meal of their chose, then they get a warden visit and chaplain visit, then witness arrive for the injection, the witness have to go to the restricted witness room adjacent to the execution chamber, and are instructed to stay quite. They connect the heart monitor to an electrocardiogram machine, it tells when the person's heart had stopped. As soon as the prisoner is dressed he/she waits in the death watch with a spiritual advisor until the warden tells someone to bring the prison to the execution chamber, they get brought a couple of minutes before the scheduled execution. The witnesses are relatives of the victims, relatives of the prisoner prison warden, medical personnel, spiritual prison guards, official group of "reputable citizens", Official group of state-selected witnesses, and Media representatives.

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