article_snippet: The botched killing led to a temporary moratorium on executions in Oklahoma while the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether the state's three-drug method is constitutionally humane.
article_snippet: Nobody wants a prisoner in an execution situation to suffer.'
article_snippet: Death row inmates typically take just 10 minutes to die from a lethal injection.
article_snippet: Since Warner, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a challenge to the new three-drug method from a group of Oklahoma death row inmates who claim the sedative won't properly render Oklahoma death row inmates unconscious before the second and third drugs are administered.
article_snippet: states that midazolam is incapable of rendering an inmate unconscious and is an inappropriate first drug to use.
article_snippet: Patton and other state officials have publicly acknowledged midazolam is not the preferred drug for lethal injection, but one that was selected when other more effective, drugs became unavailable. because manufacturers refused to sell Patton and other state officials have publicly acknowledged midazolam to states for use in executions.