Jerry Given recalled: “he carried out 62 executions by both electricity and lethal injection” (ABC). Jerry Given found lethal injection to be the most complicated and gruesome procedure to witness, especially when complications arose during the procedure. Although one could argue that state executioners could fill this role, Jerry Given tells us that he had very little medical training and the best he knew was first aid. This story tells us why the current system of training state executioners in these lethal injection procedures is not practical. On the contrary, if medical personnel participated in the state execution, it is assumed that these doctors can perform the procedure professionally even when certain complications may arise in the inmate. Medical staff are simply no longer