United States Of Execution: US In Top Five Of Global Executioners (video and pictures)

According to Human Rights Watch, global executions are up 20 percent and the US is in the top five. World wide, executions are conducted in a variety of ways, from firing squads to lethal injections. And the lethal injections are not as humane as they were purported to be.

It has gotten so bad, that  the EU refuse to  export lethal injection chemicals to the Uniteed States.

The People’s Republic of China began using this method in 1997, Guatemala in 1998, the Philippines in 1999, Thailand in 2003, and the Republic of China (Taiwan) in 2005.^[2]Vietnam reportedly now uses this method.^[9][10] The Philippines has since abolished the death penalty.

The export of drugs to be used for lethal injection was banned by the European Union (EU) in 2011, together with other items under the EU Torture Regulation. WIKIPEDIA

According to Oklahoma, a criminal law defense attorney,  Adam Banner     

With concerns about the secrecy shrouding the compounding pharmacies used to supply the lethal injection drugs to Oklahoma, the attorneys for Death Row inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner filed a federal lawsuit, later transferred to state court, against the state Department of Corrections.

Lockett was originally scheduled for execution March 20, and Warner was set to die March 27. Though neither man was granted a stay of execution pending the ruling in their lawsuit, their executions were pushed back to April 22 and 29, respectively, after the state could not get the lethal injection drugs needed to execute them.

Death penalty opponents note the cruelty of the drugs used, which often don’t work:

This 65-page report reveals the slipshod history of executions by lethal injection, using a protocol created three decades ago with no scientific research, nor modern adaptation, and still unchanged today. As the prisoner lies strapped to a gurney, a series of three drugs is injected into his vein by executioners hidden behind a wall. A massive dose of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic, is injected first, followed by pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes voluntary muscles, but leaves the prisoner fully conscious and able to experience pain. A third drug, potassium chloride, quickly causes cardiac arrest, but the drug is so painful that veterinarian guidelines prohibit its use unless a veterinarian first ensures that the pet to be put down is deeply unconscious. No such precaution is taken for prisoners being executed. source