On 12/12/05, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Paul wrote
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> >Killing a man strapped to a chair
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> it will be a table. it's all detailed here:
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> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002678652_execution12.html
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> [...]
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> [...]
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