Dudley Sharp
"In 1989, (Wood) hunted down and shot to death his former girlfriend, Debra Dietz, and her father, Eugene Dietz." (1)
"Debra Dietz's sister, Jeanne Brown, who was at the execution, said, 'Everybody here said (the execution) was excruciating. You don't know what excruciating is. Seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a pool of blood, that's excruciating.' " (1)
"No one who witnessed the execution has said Wood ever woke up. It simply took a long time for him to die." (1)
"(Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan) said IV lines in the inmate’s arms were “perfectly placed” and insisted that Wood felt no pain. " (2)
He is correct (3), there could have been no pain, only sedation, sleep, coma and death (with apnea, shortness of breath, wheezing, other noises, etc. common).
"Anesthesiology experts say they’re not surprised that the combination of drugs took so long to kill Wood." (2)
“This doesn’t actually sound like a botched execution. This actually sounds like a typical scenario if you used that drug combination,” said Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Sibert was speaking on behalf of the California Society of Anesthesiologists." (2)
"Dr. Zivot said that midazolam acts 'like a key in a lock,' attaching to a receptor in the body and causing sedation. Once the receptor is saturated, he said, 'it doesn’t matter if you give the person 500 additional doses or five million doses. It won’t have any more effect.' " (4)
"In 1989, (Wood) hunted down and shot to death his former girlfriend, Debra Dietz, and her father, Eugene Dietz." (1)
"Debra Dietz's sister, Jeanne Brown, who was at the execution, said, 'Everybody here said (the execution) was excruciating. You don't know what excruciating is. Seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a pool of blood, that's excruciating.' " (1)
"No one who witnessed the execution has said Wood ever woke up. It simply took a long time for him to die." (1)
"(Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan) said IV lines in the inmate’s arms were “perfectly placed” and insisted that Wood felt no pain. " (2)
He is correct (3), there could have been no pain, only sedation, sleep, coma and death (with apnea, shortness of breath, wheezing, other noises, etc. common).
"Anesthesiology experts say they’re not surprised that the combination of drugs took so long to kill Wood." (2)
“This doesn’t actually sound like a botched execution. This actually sounds like a typical scenario if you used that drug combination,” said Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Sibert was speaking on behalf of the California Society of Anesthesiologists." (2)
"Dr. Zivot said that midazolam acts 'like a key in a lock,' attaching to a receptor in the body and causing sedation. Once the receptor is saturated, he said, 'it doesn’t matter if you give the person 500 additional doses or five million doses. It won’t have any more effect.' " (4)
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The truthful media description for Dr. Zivot would be that he is an anti-death penalty activist, who happens to be an anesthesiologist.
Doc, death from overdose is a "more" effect:
"In this setting, benzodiazepine use was more strongly associated with mortality than any other substance of abuse. Greater recognition of the safety concerns related to benzodiazepines and strategies to prevent diversion to illicit use are needed."
"During the study period, 2,802 participants were followed for a median of 67 months (interquartile range: 25–107). In total, 527 (18.8%) participants died, for an incidence density of mortality of 2.9 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.7, 3.2) deaths per 100 person-years. After adjusting for HIV infection and other potential confounders, benzodiazepine use was independently associated with increased all-cause mortality (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.86, 95% CI 1.38, 2.51) and had a higher risk for mortality than all other traditional substances of abuse among this population." Both from:
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"The
documents showed that Mr. Ryan personally directed the execution team to use the
additional (14) doses. In his statement, Mr. Ryan said the doses ensured that
'(Wood) remained deeply sedated throughout the process, and did not endure
pain." " (4).
For an equally peaceful death, but a quicker one, use pentobarbital, alone, or nitrogen gas, the effects of which are well known.
“ '(Wood's) sedation level was continually monitored and verified by the IV team,' Mr. Ryan said. The intravenous team included a doctor, he said." (4)
Wood's breathing, wheezing and/or gasping is a product of respiratory distress, the normal side effects, as expected.
That is easy for anyone to determine.
1) Interview neutral, competent anesthesiologists.
2) Review the pharmacological characteristics of the drugs and their overdosing symptoms.
Very basic. Very easy, just as with the Ohio execution of Dennis McGuire (5), another case where folks jumped to the wrong conclusions.
For an equally peaceful death, but a quicker one, use pentobarbital, alone, or nitrogen gas, the effects of which are well known.
“ '(Wood's) sedation level was continually monitored and verified by the IV team,' Mr. Ryan said. The intravenous team included a doctor, he said." (4)
Wood's breathing, wheezing and/or gasping is a product of respiratory distress, the normal side effects, as expected.
That is easy for anyone to determine.
1) Interview neutral, competent anesthesiologists.
2) Review the pharmacological characteristics of the drugs and their overdosing symptoms.
Very basic. Very easy, just as with the Ohio execution of Dennis McGuire (5), another case where folks jumped to the wrong conclusions.
DRUG MANUFACTURERS ETHICS
For alleged ethical reasons, European pharmaceutical companies, as well as the European Union, have denied US execution jurisdictions the use of preferred drugs sodium thiopental, propofol and others, thereby, knowingly bringing greater risk of pain and suffering for death row murderers as well as putting more innocent patients at risk, in their effort to spare murderers lives, for which they have had no success, even though they would not deny those same drugs for euthanasia or abortion, even though both are banned by the Hippocratic Oath, but the death penalty is not (6).
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Nitrogen Gas; Flawless, peaceful, unrestricted method of execution
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/09/nitrogen-gas-flawless-peaceful.html
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Also see:
The (Imagined) Horror of Dennis McGuire's Execution
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-imagined-horror-of-dennis-mcguires.html
Clayton Lockett: The Case for Execution (Oklahoma)
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/08/clayton-lockett-case-for-execution.html
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3300+ pro death penalty quotes, from some of the greatest thinkers in history, inclusive of 600+ quotes from victim's families
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1) Execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood was NOT botched, EJ Montini, columnist, azcentral.com, 7/24/2014
2) "Transcript shows concerns during Arizona execution", Associated Press, Washington Post, July 25, 2014
3) Autopsy doctor finds nothing out of the ordinary in inmate’s execution, Gary Grado Arizona Capital Times, July 25, 2014.
4) "Executed Arizona Inmate Got 15 Times Standard Dose, Lawyers Say", Fernanda Santos, New York Times, AUG. 1, 2014
5) The (Imagined) Horror of Dennis McGuire's Execution
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-imagined-horror-of-dennis-mcguires.html
6) Physicians & The State Execution of Murderers: No Medical Ethics Dilemma
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/10/physicians-state-execution-of-murderers.html
