>Killing a man strapped to a chair
it will be a table. it's all detailed here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002678652_execution12.html
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If all goes according to procedure, Williams will not struggle as prison officers strap him to the injection table, connect the monitors that will record the final beats of his heart and insert the needles through which lethal chemicals will flow into his arms, once massive from lifting weights.
The death chamber will be equipped with 12 rolls of adhesive tape, 20 syringes, 10 needles, 15 tubes of varying sizes, four bags of saline solution, scissors, six tourniquets, two boxes of surgical gloves and one box each of surgical masks and alcohol wipes. There will be handcuffs and leg irons.
Nothing is left to chance. The choreography has been refined over the course of 11 executions at San Quentin since 1992 and hundreds before that. The details including the dose and combination of chemicals that will sedate Williams, paralyze him and cause his death are set forth in a 43-page document, San Quentin Operational Procedure No. 770.
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