The Chronicle-Telegram, June 1, by Brad Dicken
http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/06/11/burge-executes-changes-to-lethal-injection/
While the three-drug cocktail may appear to offer a peaceful death to witnesses because the condemned is paralyzed, there’s no way to know for certain if there is suffering, Alper said…. “The question is whether we want to risk an execution being botched just so the people watching an execution are spared seeing the body’s natural reaction to death,” said Alper.