Lethal injection: an explainer

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This animation explains the three-drug process used in most lethal injection executions.

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News & Politics

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• lethal injection
• execution
• sodium thiopental
• pancuronium
• potassium chloride

[YouGotYoinked]

@jacobbis4lovers Shit man you are DUMB. Graduate from elementary school then come back and watch this video.

[antuneze]

@jacobbis4lovers the heart is an organ made of cardiac muscle

[jetta61]

@jacobbis4lovers But when there is an elevated level of K+ ions on the outside of our cells, The potassium ions in our cells will not move across the cell membrane via diffusion. The result of this ion not moving across the membrane will cause not net electrical charge difference across the membrane. Without this net charge difference, you do not have an electrochemical gradient. Therefore electrical impulses cannot be transmitted. No communication to contract = cellular death.

[jetta61]

@jacobbis4lovers In a nutshell, it inhibits the ability of the cardiac cells to contract by blocking it's ability to conduct and receive electrical impulses. You need electrical impulses to communicate with cells. KCl, is a compound that will dissociate into K+ and Cl-. The K+ ions play a major role in the conduction impulses. Our cells uses what is called the differences in ionic balance to create an effective electrochemical gradient. This gradient acts somewhat like a battery

[jacobbis4lovers]

@shandifox Why would it stop the heart? The heart is an organ, not a muscle.

[shandifox]

Wouldn't the pancuronium stop the heart?

[HomicidalPingu]

0:32

yes. this man is dead. no shit sherlock.

[Dorisequador]

Nice way to die compaired to other executions.

[mynameisElphic]

Oh I dont.