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Paralyzing drug used in lethal injections spurs ethical debate.
Byline: John Moritz
FORT WORTH, Texas _ As a freshman state representative in Oklahoma 27 years ago, Bill Wiseman wrote, as an act of atonement, the nation's first law mandating lethal injection in death-penalty cases.
Wiseman had voted in favor of reinstating capital punishment in Oklahoma, even though he opposed the death penalty on moral and religious grounds. But to vote "no" would have been political suicide in his conservative Republican district.
"I rationalized at the time that if I could make sure that the death sentences were carried out in the most humane and painless way possible, it would somehow make up for my not doing the courageous thing but doing the politically expedient thing," recalled Wiseman, now an administrator at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.
Wiseman, 59, remains troubled by that vote in 1977, and the old wounds have been reopened by recent legal challenges asserting that one of the three drugs used in lethal injections throughout the country causes severe agony ...
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