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 iv line runs through a hole in the wall. the room is dim enough they have to use a flashlight to see in the room. they cannot see who they are drugging at all. if they need problems or have to communicate with the warden or staff in the next room along with the prisoner they are killing through the wall, to communicate with them, the executioners stick colored pencils through holes in the wall where two iv lines feed into the inmate s body. if you saw red, there might be possible problems said a deputy warden. but if you stuck t
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 iv line runs through a hole in the wall. the room is dim enough they have to use a flashlight to see in the room. they cannot see who they are drugging at all. if they need problems or have to communicate with the warden or staff in the next room along with the prisoner they are killing through the wall, to communicate with them, the executioners stick colored pencils through holes in the wall where two iv lines feed into the inmate s body. if you saw red, there might be possible problems said a deputy warden. but if you stuck the yellow pencil or the black pencil through the wall, then everything s okay. that s the system. and then there s the issue of autopsies. between 2001 and 2010, during
the room. they cannot see who they are drugging at all. if they need problems or have to communicate with the warden or staff in the next room along with the prisoner they are killing through the wall, to communicate with them, the executioners stick colored pencils through holes in the wall where two iv lines feed into the inmate s body. if you saw red, there might be possible problems said a deputy warden. but if you stuck the yellow pencil or the black pencil through the wall, then everything s okay. that s the system. and then there s the issue of autopsies. between 2001 and 2010, during which time the state was involved in several lawsuits over their lethal injection protocols, state of oklahoma stopped autopsying the prisoners who they were killing. not one in the whole decade. for more than ten years, during which time the state altered its lethal injection protocol three times, the state of oklahoma has done nothing in terms of physical examination to actually see how it is w
logistically speaking. in one state, this is a description of the various parts of the execution team, how they communicate with each other during an execution as the prisoner is being killed. we have colored pencils. we ve got a regular yellow, we ve got a black grease pencil, a red grease pencil. if you saw red, there might be possible problems. but if you see the black or yellow, things are fine. there s a wall between the room where people push down the syringes to administer the drugs, and the room where the prisoner into whom those drugs are being pushed is actually sitting or strapped down. two separate rooms. there s a hole in that wall between the two rooms and the system to make sure everything is going okay poking colored pencils through the hole in the wall, that is part of the ad hoc protocol for how they kill people in oklahoma where they notoriously botched the execution of convicted murderer clayton lockett this past april. now the excellent newspaper,
prisoner is being killed. we have colored pencils. we ve got a regular yellow, we ve got a black grease pencil, a red grease pencil. if you saw red, there might be possible problems. but if you see the black or yellow, things are fine. there s a wall between the room where people push down the syringes to administer the drugs, and the room where the prisoner into whom those drugs are being pushed is actually sitting or strapped down. two separate rooms. there s a hole in that wall between the two rooms and the system to make sure everything is going okay poking colored pencils through the hole in the wall, that is part of the ad hoc protocol for how they kill people in oklahoma where they notoriously botched the execution of convicted murderer clayton lockett this past april. now the excellent newspaper, the tulsa world published a three-part series exposing unbelievable details about oklahoma s death penalty and the way it s administered. today s print edition part two