USA Resumes Execution Spree with Experimental Drug Cocktails

June 18th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

nsnbc : Marcus Wellons, 59 was executed Tuesday night in Georgia and John Winfield, 46, was executed early Wednesday morning in Georgia. A third execution is scheduled in Florida on Wednesday. Both were executed by lethal injection, seven weeks after the botched, 45 minutes long execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma. U.S. penitentiaries use experimental drug cocktails after the E.U. adopted a ban on the export of drugs used in executions.

Marcus Wellons, 59, was the first to be executed since the botched execution of Clayton Lockett, in April. Wellon was reportedly executed with an overdose of the drug phenobarbital, which would be deviation from the usual and approved “triple cocktail” consisting of a fast-acting anaesthetic, a muscle-paralysing agent, and a cardiotoxin to stop the heart. Even with this “approved” cocktail, executions were often botched.

Lockett’s execution with an “experimental cocktail” lasted 45 minutes after which he finally succumbed to a massive heart attack. The execution of Lockett sparked a federal review to assess whether current execution protocols lead to “cruel and unusual punishment”.

Lethal injections in the U.S. have become especially controversial after the E.U. implemented a ban on the export of drugs used in lethal injections, prompting penitentiaries in the U.S. to use experimental drug cocktails due to shortages of the usual drugs.

The botched execution of Dennis McGuire in Oklahoma, in January, prompted David Nicoll, a Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham to stress that McGuire’s execution shows, that lethal injections are based on “guesswork”.

Several U.S. States attempt to conceal which drugs they are using for executions and the country of origin. Death-row inmates, including Wellon and their lawyers argue that laws which permit States to conceal this information constitute violations of the convict’s constitutional rights. Wellon’s lawyers filed an appeal at eleventh circuit on Tuesday, asking for a stay of execution until information about the drugs which would be used for Wellon’s execution would be disclosed. The appeal was turned down.

In 2013, following the E.U. drug export ban, the State of Georgia adopted legislation that allowed disclosing information about the drugs from the convict and his lawyers. On Monday, the Board of Pardons and paroles denied Wellon’s petition for clemency.

Only a few hours after the execution of Wellons in Georgia, the 46 year-old John Winfield was killed by lethal injection in the State of Missouri. A third execution, of John Ruthell Henry, is scheduled for Wednesday at 7.00 pm local time in the State of Florida.

All three U.S. States refuse to tell which drugs they are using and where they have acquired the drugs from. Georgia and Missouri, reportedly, execute convicts with phenobarbital while Florida uses a three-drug cocktail of midazolam hydrochloride, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Most U.S. corporate media, while reporting superficially about the use of untested experimental drug cocktails, conclude that the convicts “got what they deserved”.

The “they got what they deserved” narrative is missing the point. E.U. export ban sparks experimental killing spree in the U.S.

Problems with lethal injections in the U.S.A. arose after the European Union, which has outlawed the death penalty, adopted export controls to prevent drugs from being used in executions. The E.U. export ban affects the export of sodium thiopental which was used as part of the “triple cocktail” in execution throughout the U.S.

The ban on sodium thiopental exports prompted U.S. penitentiaries to switch to pentobarbital, but additional pressure from the side of the E.U. caused Lundbeck, the Danish manufacturer of pentobarbital sold under the name Nembutal, to review its distribution system so as to avoid that the drug would end up in U.S. penitentiaries.

U.S. penitentiaries have increasingly begun using utterly untested drugs and combinations of drugs, including among others the anesthetic propofol which came to fame when the drug was involved in the botched “treatment” of Micheal Jackson.

Ch/L – nsnbc 18.06.2014

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