Source: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital-punishment/condemned-inmates-who-have-died-since-1978/

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I'm guessing other is murdered.

Why do they swab prisoners arms with alcohol right before injecting death drugs?

I’d guess “suicide” is also murder

Itd be considered 'inhumane". But i see the irony, as deathrow itself is so inhumane.

I mean, putting a % number seems like the minimum thing to do?

I believe it's technically recorded as "Suicide(d)"

Isn't that more like playing the beta before the complete release?

Sometimes it helps you find the vein.

Terrible sad stats. Amazing that Americans tolerate this official barbarism. Locking people up with execution hanging over them as they gradually die off from suicide and natural causes is sorta like torture isn’t it? It would actually be more humane to quickly carry out the sentence.

Why would it be inhumane not to swab them? Alcohol prevents infection, it doesn’t anaesthetise the area.

Because it’s standard operating procedure.

Even if that specific step of the SOP is not necessary in this instance, it’s still good practice for the administer in general so that it becomes second nature.

That is a high suicide rate.

If they have to abort the process for any reason, you don't want them dying of an infection.

"pending"

I don't like the implications that can literally have...

Well there is a chance they will survive the execution. Many ppl have survived executions before. Its more common than you think.

Most people on death row - dont even end up dying from executions. They die of natural causes, suicide, or murder.

Depressing. If I ever get to death row while innocent, I would welcome a fast trial and fast death like in China.

How the hell are these guys getting enough drugs on death row to overdose?

There are many more drugs in prison than you'd think

Isn't "overdose" and "executed" basically the same category?

it would be, for those that end up being executed.

another way to look at it is that the waiting period invites the possibility of new developments. it'd be a shame for an incorrect verdict leading to the immediate execution of an innocent person, when new evidence exonerating them may have been found in the next year or two.

not sure how often that happens though...

Kinda like checking your blind spot on an empty road

Isn’t everyone’s death pending?

Sounds like a waste of money to let all those ppl die naturally

They know that execution is not going to happen. And the horror, pain and suffering their victims and their families endured is unimaginable. I don't feel bad for them - at all.

You don't say?

Ppl downvote a valid comment on reddit. Yall have google but the average person is too stupid to utilize it. 🤣

Overdose refers to the prisoner taking too many drugs themselves, really it's more in the suicide category.

Mother of hell. Barely 10% executed. If you are going to have death penalty, mean it, kill them next them next morning not rarely ever. F that!

I can not get any drugs in my tow and they can overdone? F that!

check what post you're commenting on, dude

Oh shit. Hahaha