By the time I hit 10 I was totally out and the next thing I remember is waking up in recovery with a hole in my abdomen stitched up. Between 1977 and 1982, the years immediately following the reinstatement of the death penalty, there were a total of two executions. Let’s find out, in this episode of The Infographics Show: How Does Lethal Injection Work?

Lethal injection has risen to prominence and become the near-exclusive method of execution in America, due to its reputation of being less painful and more humane than other methods.
On December 2, 2005, Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th person to be executed since 1977. Advertisement


All 31 states that still have the death penalty use lethal injection as their primary method of execution. ; Witnesses arrive - There is no contact allowed between witnesses and the condemned prisoner. Lethal injection simply stops some fundamental process within the body by chemical means. Different drugs interact with the body in different ways and all drugs can be a poison in sufficiently high doses. Vietnam decided to replace the use of firing squads with lethal injection as its method of execution in 2010, with the decision taking effect in 2011.

An overwhelming number of these executions were carried out by lethal injection. He was executed by firing squad in Jamestown, Va.

Last meal is provided - Prisons try to provide whatever meal is requested by the condemned prisoner. Executions in the United States were once a public spectacle, and the tradition persisted well into the first half of the 20th century. Of those executions, 3 were by firing squad, 3 by hanging, 11 by gas chamber, 158 by electrocution, and 1,297 by lethal injection. How does a lethal injection work?

Some states use multiple executioners, all of whom inject drugs into an IV tube -- but only one of the executioners is actually delivering the lethal injection. There have been 1,472 executions in America since 1976. At the warden's signal, the execution team will begin injecting lethal doses of two or three drugs into the IVs. Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broader sense to include euthanasia and other forms of suicide.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington D.C., the protocol for lethal injection in most states involves a sequence of three shots that are delivered via intravenous drips inserted in each arm. ; Warden and chaplain visit - The warden and the state-appointed chaplain visit with the inmate and stay until the end of the execution. The first documented case of capital punishment in America dates back to 1608, when George Kendall was accused of betraying Britain to her enemy, Spain.

Its first lethal injection executions were carried out in December 2003, when four men convicted of drug trafficking and murder were put to death. …

In some cases, the executioners may wear a hood to conceal their identity. Have you ever had surgery under general anesthetic? I have.