Entries tagged with “Dr. Mark Edgar”
Methods of Execution
,Sep 17, 2025
Autopsy Points to Reason Behind Byron Black’s Painful Execution in Tennessee
Byron Black was executed in Tennessee by lethal injection on August 5, 2025. During his execution, Mr. Black unexpectedly and repeatedly groaned over the course of several minutes and audibly told his spiritual advisor that he was in pain. An autopsy released September 10, 2025, provides some explanation. It found evidence of“pulmonary congestion and edema”– defined as an abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs which can produce sensations of“doom,…
Executions
Executions Overview
,Botched Executions
,Aug 16, 2022
Private Autopsy Documents ‘Carnage’ Experienced by Alabama Death-Row Prisoner Joe Nathan James During Longest Botched Lethal-Injection Execution in History
A private autopsy of Alabama death-row prisoner Joe Nathan James, Jr. suggests that unqualified corrections personnel subjected him to a torturous, hours-long execution process in a botched execution that experts say was the longest since the advent of lethal injection…
Executions
Methods of Execution
,Sep 25, 2020
NPR Investigation of Lethal-Injection Autopsies Finds Executed Prisoners Experience Sensations of Suffocation and Drowning
A new National Public Radio (NPR) analysis of more than 200 autopsies of death-row prisoners executed by lethal injection has found that 84% of those executed showed evidence of pulmonary edema, a condition in which a person’s lungs fill with fluid that creates the feeling of suffocation or drowning that experts have likened to…