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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Upcoming Execution to Use Pentobarbital

An upcoming execution may be the first carried out in Virginia with a powerful sedative that has been successfully, if controversially, used in lethal injections in other states.

Jerry Terrell Jackson, 30, is set to die Aug. 18 for the capital murder of Ruth Phillips, 88, in Williamsburg. Phillips' body was discovered by her son Aug. 26, 2001. She had been raped and smothered with a pillow.

For years, Virginia and other states that conduct lethal injections used sodium thiopental as the first of three drugs administered in the procedure. But a national shortage of the drug has forced a switch to pentobarbital by many states.

In lethal injections, sodium thiopental or pentobarbital are used first to render the inmate unconscious, pancuronium bromide is then administered to stop muscle movement and finally potassium chloride stops the heart.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

A bullet in the back of the head is a whole lot cheaper.

Anonymous said...

Who cares if it does the job.

Anonymous said...

Use acid.

Cory Puckett said...

who cares if the inmate is suffering ..... do you think the person they killed or raped had that luxury... I am so friggin tired of these assclowns that have bleeding hearts for these people .....

Anonymous said...

How about using copper a jacketed lead injection?

Anonymous said...

I figured there would be comments like those above. I wasn't disappointed.