the state does not require there to be in any backup drugs on hand in case they start the execution but something goes wrong with the first batch. that does appear to have been part of what happened in the screwed up execution in late april. other states require a backup set of drugs. oklahoma does not. state also has no specific procedures on hand to determine if a prisoner is really unconscious. or what to do in the event that an execution goes wrong in some other way. there's also the matter of how the execution chamber is set up. i can't get this out of my head. "tulsa world" found the drugs are administered from a room that is walled off from the actual person into whom the drugs are being pushed. they describe it as a cramped dimly lit room next to the death chamber where three volunteer executioners push syringes of lethal drugs into the veins of an inmate they cannot see. the i virks line runs through a hole in the wall. the room is dim enough they have to use a flashlight to see in