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Execution by Lethal Injection: Illegal Research ?
Author(s) -
Philpott Sean
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.279
Subject(s) - consciousness , anesthesia , medicine , psychology , business , neuroscience
Several states systematically collect data to assess whether the anesthesia administered was sufficient—the same data used by researchers to show that the concentration of sodium thiopental in the blood of executed prisoners was not enough to ensure loss of consciousness and that these inadequate levels of anesthesia were not the result of pharmacokinetic changes after death. This activity could constitute human subjects research under existing law .