Possible Lethal Injection Cocktail Change

Dr. Jay Chapman, developer of the lethal injection cocktail, has recently announced that maybe it's time to change the cocktail to more effective and efficient drugs. He developed his formula in the late 1970's upon realizing the inhumanity of the then current methods of execution: the electric chair and the firing squad. He discussed with his colleagues at the Oklahoma state medical examiner's office the notion that they were killing animals more humanely than they were killing people. Nevertheless, Chapman supported the death penalty. For three weeks after that discussion, he labored to find a way to kill someone better (which sounds kinda creepy), or rather the best combination of drugs that would work swiftly and painlessly when injected.

Finally, he came up with his three-drug cocktail. Since then, over thirty-seven states have adopted his formula, his exact formula. However, since his first revelation, Chapman has thought that instead of causing a quick, painless death, it may be causing a slow, painful one. Chapman stated in a recent interview that it may be time to change the formula. He said that many problems could arise that would significantly slow down the death of the individual, causing pain and distress. A recent study has even shown that sometimes inmates suffocate slowly without being able to communicate. As a result, two states have ruled lethal injection unconstitutional, and eleven other have stopped using lethal injection. One instance of this painful death was last year when it took Joseph Clark, who killed two Ohio citizens, nearly 90 minutes to die, repeatedly saying "don't work, don't work" and "Can you just give me something by mouth to end this?"