The article reports on the use of autopsies to determine the humaneness of executions by lethal injection. Researchers have questioned whether enough of the barbiturate thiopental is used in executions to anesthetize condemned inmates. H. Wayne Carver II, chief medical examiner of Connecticut, asserted that low levels of thiopental revealed in autopsies were due to tissue absorption of the drug after death. Anesthesiologist Mark Heath comments on the secrecy of medical data on executions.
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