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Death row inmate suffered ‘excruciating’ execution, after making last meal ‘mistake’

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Purkey’s autopsy revealed that he suffered “severe bilateral acute pulmonary oedema” and “frothy pulmonary oedema in trachea and main stem bronchi”.

Dr Gail Van Norman, a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, said the filling of Purkey’s lungs could only have happened while he was still alive. “It is a virtual medical certainty, that most,continue reading …

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