The state’s execution protocol includes plans for a three-drug injection of an opioid (either fentanyl or alfentanil), followed by an injection of ketamine and a drug to stop the heart (either potassium chloride or potassium acetate), or a four-drug protocol that adds a paralytic (cisatracurium) as the third drug in the sequence, between ketamine and the potassium-based drug. As Boulware considers testimony about the state’s novel lethal injection protocol, a new execution date has not been set for the 46-year-old Floyd, who was convicted and sentenced to death after killing four people and injuring a fifth person inside a Las Vegas grocery store in 1999. In June, Boulware ordered a stay of Floyd’s execution that was set for July, just weeks after Democratic leaders in the state Senate scrapped a bill to abolish the death penalty. Floyd’s lawyers have argued that unnecessary pain would violate Eighth Amendment prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment. District Court Judge Richard Boulware came several weeks after previous evidentiary hearings that saw Floyd’s counsel implore the court to consider alternative methods, including a firing squad, and call upon their own medical experts to highlight the alleged inefficacy of the state’s proposed execution plans that they claimed would result in suffering for Floyd.
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