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Thread: Christopher Eugene Brooks - Alabama Execution - January 21, 2016

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    Lawyers question whether Alabama inmate felt burning pain during lethal injection

    Alabama death row inmate Christopher Brooks may have been burned alive by the state's new lethal drug cocktail during his January execution, a former federal public defender from Alabama wrote in a column published Thursday on the political website The Hill.

    Bob Horton, spokesman for the Alabama Department of Corrections, denied the allegation. "The claim is unsubstantiated. There is no evidence to lead to a conclusion that the inmate suffered," he stated in an email to AL.com on Friday morning.

    Stephen Cooper, in his post, points to an April 15 complaint filed by a federal public defender representing death row inmate Ronald Bert Smith, who is now scheduled to be executed Dec. 8.

    Smith and several other death row inmates, including Tommy Arthur who is set for execution Nov. 3, have been challenging Alabama's new three-drug lethal injection protocol as violating the 8th Amendment provision against cruel and unusual punishment.

    The state had halted executions for more than two years as they looked for a new source of the lethal injection drugs and dealt with the lawsuits.

    The new three-drug combination was first used in Brooks' execution on Jan. 21. Brooks, 43, was convicted in the December 1992 brutal rape and murder of Jo Deann Campbell inside her Homewood apartment.

    The first drug, 500mg dose of Midazolam, was administered to Brooks as an anesthesia. A prison captain pinched Brooks' upper left arm and pulled open his eyelid to check for consciousness before the final two drugs were administered.

    The second drug, rocuronium bromide, a neuromuscular blocker, was then administered followed by the third drug, potassium chloride.

    According to the complaint, potassium chloride disrupts the normal electrical activity of the heart and induces cardiac arrest by stopping the heart from pumping blood.

    "Potassium chloride traveling in the bloodstream from the site of injection towards the heart causes an extreme burning sensation as it moves through the body destroying the internal organs," the complaint states. "In the event of incomplete anesthetic depth, the injection of potassium chloride will cause excruciating pain."

    The complaint by Smith's attorneys cites a written statement by Terri Deep, an investigator with the public defenders' office for the Middle District who was a witness at Brooks' execution.

    "Ms. Deep saw Mr. Brooks' left eye open during the execution, after the consciousness test was performed. No official from the ADOC took action when Mr. Brooks' eye opened," the complaint states. "If the paralytic was injected properly and performed its function, Mr. Brooks would not have been able to open his eye."

    That indicated Brooks was not insensate at the time he was injected with rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride, Smith's complaint argues.

    In light of what happened with Brooks' execution, Smith's attorneys argued, "there is an objectively intolerable risk that plaintiff (Smith) will not be adequately anesthetized before the second and third drugs have been administered, causing him to experience intolerable pain and suffering."

    While comments from Deep's statement were included in the complaint, her entire statement was sealed from public view.

    Reporters who witnessed the execution did not note any signs of distress by Brooks during his execution and Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn said afterward that it had gone as planned.

    Smith's and Brooks' attorneys, who are all with the federal public defender's office in Montgomery, had not responded to an email from Al.com Thursday night seeking comment about the claims prior to publication of this story.

    Online federal court records do not show any response to that complaint by the Alabama Attorney General's Office on behalf of the prison system. Smith's complaint was folded into the other litigation by death row inmates.

    http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/in...her_execu.html
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    Suffered? Hope so!!!

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