Pentobarbital

We will use barbiturates, not pentobarbital, but associated drugs, so that they don't have that feeling of impending doom or of The inability to catch their breath.

Have you ever been hit in the chest and can't get your breath for a second? It's scary.

Pentobarbital can produce, in some cases, pulmonary edema as a side effect.

And we don't know for sure because when it's successful, these prisoners can't come back and tell us that just before they died, they felt like they couldn't get enough air and it's called air hunger.

Yeah, that is disturbing too.

Fact machine, good friends of mine, another poll they ran, 38% of people think Europe is cooked.

38%? What are the other 62 doing? Taking Nembutal and melatonin and Ambien? Open your eyes.

And again, I am noting the juxtapose.

I'm not saying every square inch of Europe, because people stitch this and say, oh, well, I was just in Paris and this place was totally fine.

He's been given LSD the previous weekend.

He's got this Nembutal.

They're giving him alcohol to try and keep him, like, easy to handle, I guess, like, semi-sedated.

Yeah.

He goes back to his bedroom where his wife is now dead, takes a concoction of acid and tranquilizer pills.

And of course it's like on every different place, it's a different kind of whatever he takes, you know, Nembutal or tranquilizers or codeine and the acid is supposedly cyanide.

He takes a bunch of shit so that basically when the police arrive, he's on the ground in his bedroom where his wife is dead in the bed.

He's near death and he's got the fucking ball peen hammer in his hand.

They've gone down this road now with lethal injection.

And I have to remind everybody that Tennessee had a cocktail for a while, and they got away from the cocktail, and they went to Pentobarbital, which, by the way, there's people that don't know Phenobarbital and Pentobarbital come from – they're both in the barbiturate family.

And barbiturates have been around, I think, since – 1903, 1904.

It ain't a new drug family.

I can't remember if I explained this before, but I'm going to go ahead and say it anyway.

You guys don't mind, I know.

Pentobarbital is one of the drugs that's administered in order to put people into a medically induced coma.

Okay? So, it affects...

Then the state began the process of killing her.

Pentobarbital entered the procedure, but death did not follow as Tennessee expected.

Pike remained responsive, and at one point raised her head and complained about her arm.

Witness accounts reported her saying that it was burning and hurting, that it felt as though it might burst.