In the death chamber, he will be given the opportunity to make some last remarks. Preparations are under way at the prison, although few details are being made public outside the printed Department of Corrections instructions for executions. The execution team will be kept from view. The number of people on the execution team, their identities and their credentials are being kept secret. Death should occur in 6 to 10 minutes, according to the Corrections Department.
Lethal injection is the most common means of execution in the United States.
34 of 38 states that have the death penalty have lethal injection, and there have been 327 lethal injection executions out of 483 total since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976. Lethal injection has been advanced as a more humane means of state- administered death, but Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., said he believes lethal injection is more for the living than the dead. Lethal injection is a more antiseptic, modern, seemingly painless process. It is much preferred for those who have to do that. The person who is executed is obviously dead in a few minutes, regardless of the method.