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* ''Potassium Chloride'' - a drug that causes the [[heart]] to cease beating.

* ''Potassium Chloride'' - a drug that causes the [[heart]] to cease beating.

Death by lethal injection has not traditionally been believed to be painful as the inmate will go to sleep prior to the [[death]]-inducing drugs being pumped in their veins, however, recent medical findings have called this into question. [http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/264/story/19957.html] Lethal injection is the preferred method for executions in the [[United States]].  It is also used in [[Japan]] and [[Arab]] countries.

Death by lethal injection has not traditionally been believed to be painful as the inmate will go to sleep prior to the [[death]]-inducing drugs being pumped in their veins, however, recent medical findings have called this into question. [http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/264/story/19957.html] Lethal injection is the preferred method for executions in the [[United States]].  It is also used in [[Japan]] and [[Arab]] countries, and has also been used in Guatemala and the Philippines. [http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/injection.html]