Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Execution that should have taken 10 minutes lasted nearly 2 hours, with defendant gasping for air more than 600 times. Joel Zivot, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and surgery at Emory University Hospital, there is an inherent danger in repurposing drugs "designed to treat patients, to cure diseases," because there was no dosage "prescribed as having the intent to kill." "They're making this up as they go along," Zivot told the New York Times. |