Execution Day After exhausting all mandatory appeals and other remedies, the Sentencing Judge will issue an Execution Warrant and a week during which the execution shall be carried out. The following is a breakdown of execution day: •An approved spiritual advisor will meet with the inmate to assist the inmate in preparation for the execution. The inmate may elect to have the spiritual advisor present during the execution. •The last meal will be served at normal meal time. The meal will consist of anything within reason that is stocked by the Food Service Department. •The inmate will be offered the opportunity to shower and dress in clean clothes one and one-half hours prior to the scheduled execution time. •Following the shower, the inmate will be dressed in green uniform pants, a green button-up front shirt, socks, and shoes. •Thirty minutes prior to the scheduled execution time, the strap down team will remove the inmate from the holding cell and strap the inmate to the execution bed. •Twenty minutes prior to the scheduled execution time or when instructed by the Warden, the IV team will insert two intravenous catheters into appropriate veins in the inmate’s arms, one to deliver the lethal agents and the other to serve as a back-up in the event of injection failure into the primary catheter. •The Warden will read the Execution Warrant to the inmate. •Approximately 8 minutes prior to the scheduled execution time, a select group of witnesses, usually comprised of the victim’s family, the prosecuting and defense attorneys, an official from the investigating law enforcement agency, and approved media representatives, are escorted to the witness viewing room. •The Warden will disconnect the telephone in the execution room after receiving the order from the Governor and Executive Director to proceed with the execution. The witness viewing window curtain will then be opened. •The Warden will verify that the witness room curtain is open, enter the enclosed chemical room, and instruct the injection team, comprised of two anonymous DOC staff, to proceed with the injections. •The injection team shall administer the chemical agents according to the Department’s lethal injection procedures, which provides the delivery of a lethal solution of sodium pentothol, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. A saline solution is injected following each chemical injection. Anonymity is achieved in the execution process by requiring the injection team members to alternate in rendering each injection and by marking the chemical bottles by number only. •Two minutes after the chemical agents are injected, the Warden will ask the coroner to enter the room, examine the inmate, and pronounce death and the time. •Immediately after the execution and pronouncement of death, the witness room curtain will be closed and the witnesses escorted from the viewing area to the lobby where they will sign the Record of Execution book. •The media witnesses will then be transported as a group to the media area they will brief the other media
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:37:18 +0000
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