Today’s Clearly Painful Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Although popular conception is that lethal injection executions are painless, there are several cases of clearly painful lethal injection deaths. Stephen McCoy, executed in Texas, May 1989, reacted so violently to his injection one of the witnesses fainted, knocking over two other witnesses. Robyn Lee Parks began to convulse two minutes after his injection, in Oklahoma, March 1991. Muscles in his jaw, neck, and abdomen went into spasm and he gasped and gagged for more than a minute.
Culled from: The Last Face You’ll Ever See: The Culture of Death Row
The scene of the witness fainting and knocking down two other people on the way to the floor is priceless.