Ban Lethal Injection and Pancuronium Bromide

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This petition is to stop the use of lethal injection, and the use of pancuronium bromide, to execute human beings. Pavulon,which was a brand name for pancuronium bromide has been taken off the market in the USA, and the American Veterinary Medical Association for the euthanasia of animals does not allow it's use, and is banned for the use of animals in at least 19 states, although it's used for inmate executions. This drug can cause extreme suffering and act like a "veil" to witnesses because of it's paralyzing effect. This drug can make it impossible to be able to tell whether an animal is in fact conscious or unconscious.Pancuronium bromide can render an inmate conscious and aware but unable to speak or move.
Pancuronium bromide is one of three drugs used for lethal injection. The first, sodium pentathol, acts as an anesthetic to put the inmate to sleep, pancuronium bromide then paralyzes the muscle system so that the inmate is unable to move, the third drug potassium chloride stops the heart.
The ethical debate in medicine is that a physician who performs the injection is violating their medical oath to preserve life, and therefor technicians and others are performing the executions, and have caused many "botched" executions. They are administering drugs that normally a physician would do.
Studies have showed that autopsy results of executed inmates in various states found that 43 percent had concentrations of anesthetic in their blood so low that they may have remained conscious to the end. The medical journal editorialized, "it would be a cruel way to die: awake, paralyzed, unable to move, to breathe, while potassium burned through your veins." This goes against the 8th amendment which states: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
We the undersigned state there is no humane way to execute a fellow human being, and lethal injection is both morally, and medically wrong, and goes against the American Constitution, and demand all executions be stopped immediately.
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807 signatures
Goal: 5,000
Latest Signatures
13 February 2016
807. Sarah H | I support this petition
12 February 2016
806. Matt F | Tis sad that this actually exists in America.
6 February 2016
805. Jan L | We are not a barbaric society, this is barbarism of the worst sort. We are better than this act implies. Please change it.
31 January 2016
804. James Ra | I support this petition
29 January 2016
803. Sean H | В
29 January 2016
802. Mesha M | Idriss Stelley Foundation, director, SF CEDP
27 January 2016
801. Sarah Bender | I support this petition
26 January 2016
800. Lisa M | I support this petition
24 January 2016
799. Liane L | I support this petition
22 January 2016
798. Andrea B | I support this petition
5 January 2016
797. Caylor D | I support this petition
2 January 2016
796. Evamaria G | I support this petition
24 December 2015
795. Annette Kline | Nothing Humane about Killing Fellow Being-Abolish the Death Penalty
20 December 2015
794. Olga K | I support this petition
11 December 2015
793. James J | I support this petition
7 December 2015
792. Heather E | capital punishment is murder
28 November 2015
791. Pam R | I support this petition
26 October 2015
790. Harald N | I support this petition
21 October 2015
789. David T | В
20 October 2015
788. Elena I | I support this petition
17 October 2015
787. Ben S | I support this petition
3 October 2015
786. Tabaatha Cw | I support this petition
30 September 2015
785. Laura Hn | I support this petition
29 September 2015
784. Carl T | There is no reasonable excuse for this violation of human rights.
26 September 2015
783. Steve Schroeder | We live in the 21st century. The use of this drug is quite simply Chemical Crucifixion
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To the Governor's of the USA, The Religious leaders, Medical Professionals, Human Rights groups, and all concered people worldwide.
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