[lbo-talk] Extra chemicals needed to kill elderly inmate

[B.]

Having suffered a heart attack back in September,
Allen had asked prison authorities to let him die if
he went into cardiac arrest before his execution, a
request prison officials said they would not honor.

"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of
life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. "We
would resuscitate him," then execute him.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/17/allen.death.ap/index.html

-B.