Despite being seen as the most human and corporal punishment, those claims are generally not fulfilled. There have been multiple cases where lethal injection was not properly administered and a inmate died painfully. In 1988, Raymond Landry was pronounced dead forty minutes after being strapped to the execution gurney (2018). Prison official began administering the lethal dosage at 12:21am but two minutes later, a tube attached to a needle inside the inmates are began to leak which lead to chemicals spraying around the room (Murderer Executed After a Leaky Lethal Injection (1988, Dec 14)). While this is old case, this is a prime example of why prisons should have properly trained staff to administer lethal injection or incident can occur. In 1989, Stephen McCoy, a death row inmate, had a violent physical reaction to the three-drug protocol which lead to the inmate chocking …show more content…
Wood in Arizona. After the drugs were injected (midazolam and hydromorphone), Mr. Wood reportedly gasped for one hour and forty minutes before his death was pronounced (2018). This is would be an example of cruel and unusual because of the severe infliction of pain that had had to occur for the individual. This shows that even thirty-seven years later, inmates are suffering from lethal injection due to the lack of medical ethics. The last botched execution (failed attempt) was on February 22, 2018 (2018). The inmate, Doyle Lee Hamm, despite several warnings from the defense counsel about the impossibility of locating a vein to insert the catheter, the state went forward with performing the execution. For roughly three hours, the executioner tried to find a vein which lead to the staff leaving between ten to twelve puncture marks including six in his groin that punctured his bladder and his femoral artery (2018). By midnight the state reached the deadline for further attempts and the execution was called off. Mr. Hamm is still currently being evaluated for another