#DeathPenaltyFail A Lethal Injection

This video contains images that some viewers may find offensive. A painstaking reconstruction of a real-time execution by lethal injection that highlights some of the very specific issues relating to the USA’s preferred execution method. Using CCTV footage, authentic set design and a script based on real life events, the reality of a lethal injection is heightened to uncomfortable levels.*

*This video is a dramatised execution and features fictional characters.
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#DeathPenaltyFail is a film campaign to promote the facts, highlight the inefficiencies and push for the repeal of the death penalty in the United States.

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[codyspigler]

This actually messes with the corrections officers as well. Alot of them quit because they can't bear it anymore.

[Angelplays]

Bro really said “try to breathe joe” when he’s dying😭💀

[crhollifield]

i can’t believe how they keep patting his shoulder and telling him it’s gonna be okay. lol like is it bro? i thought i was about to be killed. that doesn’t sound okay with me

[halieyoung]

I'm sure his victims didn't get a pat on the shoulder and say everything was going to be ok.

[RS]

Damn these guys have amazing acting skills!

PS: it is staged and mentioned in the description !

[KevinoftheCosmos]

People used to face firing squads, hang in the gallows, and lose their heads by way of a guillotine. Part of me thinks that lethal injection worse, in spite of all of the humane measures taken by the state, law enforcement, and medical staff. I would pick any of the former, personally. There are no words for the suspense and sheer terror of the impending demise.

[daleandrews]

If I were innocent, I'd be hollering from the highest mountain top about being innocent where everyone - including the press - could hear, instead of privately and quietly consulting with my attorney the way the Idaho killer (Brian Kohberger or O.J.) does and did, respectively. You wouldn't be able to shut me up, every step of the way!

[nev]

I’ve always felt like firing squad or hanging would overall be less tense and awkward than lethal injection lmao

[obscurity]

Let’s not forget that these prisoners have done some absolutely heinous things to end up strapped to that table. If it burns in their chest a little before they die, I’m sure it’s nothing compared to the pain they inflicted upon others to deserve a death penalty conviction and sentencing.

[dmtdreamz]

There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions—one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once
for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’

[AymaneElAchkar]

1:04 : "just bro is about to die and they telling him to relax

[___David___Savian]

This was so well acted that the actor actually died on the bed and of course all involved got away with the crime just like real prison employees get away with mistakes.

[madi_roh]

i feel horrible for how this effects the officers:/

[TreyTheRustyBuilder]

Man: *Breaths Heavily*
Officer: Just Relax
NAW BOY IM ABOUT TO DIE

[Honeymoon]

He’s a very good actor. Honestly if I didn’t read the description I would’ve thought it was real.

[ZetsuboNoShima]

If someone did something to deserve the death penalty then a painful drug induced death is way better than what the families and loved ones of the victim of their crime would like to rightfully do to them

[miss_darkrai]

I don’t know why, knowing that many many people on death row have done absolutely monstrous atrocities, I still teared up when watching this. The family being absolutely devastated, the convict suffering a very painful end, everyone panicked. It was definitely hard to watch. And the facts that popped up on the screen didn’t make it any easier. I don’t know why I feel like this for genuine monsters, but part of me doesn’t wish for anyone to die like this.

[suspect_fb]

Exectioner: “just administered Lethal dose of potassium chloride”

30 seconds later: “stay with me joe I NEED YOU TO BREATHE”

[darrendelanois]

This was incredible and the setup was probably pretty accurate but probably a little dramatic
Idk if shit went haywire like that it might be accurate.

[carloszarate]

I wonder if he felt the same emotion when he committed the murder..just saying..