Compared with other forms of execution in history such as hanging, shooting…, the death penalty by poison appeared quite late and is now being applied by many countries, especially the US.
This form of execution first appeared in 1982 in the US, then China in 1997 and a number of other countries such as Thailand (2003), Guatemala (1996), Maldives and Vietnam (2013), Guatemala (canceled in 2000) and the Philippines (1999 but abandoned in 2006).
The US was the first country to apply this method. (Image Imago/blickwinkel).
In particular, the United States is the country using this method the most, only from 2004 to 2006, almost all forms of death are used this way.
The reason this form is popular in the US is because on January 17, 1888 an American doctor named Julius Mount Bleyer gave it because this form is cheaper than other forms of death.
On May 11, 1977, the state of Oklahoma was the first state to experiment with this method of handling death row inmates when medical examiner Jay Chapman introduced what became known as the Chapman Ritual to kill the victim. quickly.
By 2004, this method was almost universal in most states, while the EU banned its use in 2011.
The word is fixed on the cassette. (Photo by MyAJC.com).
Usually in the US, death row inmates will be injected with poison by hand (for a time machines did this, but it was canceled because it was easier to fail). The injected poison usually consists of 3 stages:
The above poisons are usually injected into a vein in each hand (but usually only need to be injected into one hand, the other hand is just a precaution if it fails), the victim is kept immobilized on a stretcher and the poison is injected. will absorb very quickly and cause almost instant death.