Tennessee man's heart still active nearly two minutes after execution, lawyer says

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2. There are officially adopted protocols (by species) for veterinarians--all which include major doses of

analgesic medications (often narcotics) and sedatives PRIOR to any administration of pentobarbitol-type meds.

These protocols are designed to be QUICKLY effective, but overall to prevent pain, struggling, or distress.

The bottom line is these executioners DON'T WANT what we do for our non-human animals. Suffering is the point.

That said, I'd bet money that the catheter was not properly placed in the vein and thus most of the meds went into the tissues. No qualified physician (typically an anesthesiologist) is going to agree to establish their drug protocol for obvious reasons so they apparently just have some half-assed self-described "expert" do so and this is what you get.

I am so sorry for this man. No matter what he did, we should not be in the business of torture.