The Alabama AG’s Office is denying that Joe Nathan James Jr., executed in July, was given intramuscular sedatives or that he underwent an invasive ‘cutdown’ procedure (a way some medical professionals cut open a person’s arm to access a vein).
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office responded to the lawsuit in a filing to the federal court, saying Smith should have brought up his concerns to the state’s lethal injection protocol sooner. “But the James execution did not give rise to a new cause of action,” the AG’s Office wrote. “Smith’s allegations all come third-hand, being based on a press account of a second autopsy performed some days after James’ execution.
The AG’s Office denies that either a cutdown procedure or intramuscular sedation happened during James’ execution, but the state “will stipulate that such procedures will not be employed in the execution of Smith.” The ADOC “will not employ a ‘cutdown’ procedure or intramuscular sedation during the execution of Smith,” the filing clarified.
After James was executed on July 28, Dr. Joel Zivot examined his body during a private autopsy. The doctor told AL.com that James suffered from a cutdown, or a way some medical professionals cut open a person’s arm to access a vein. Zivot said a cutdown is an old technique and suggests a certain level of skill from a person with medical training.
The redacted version of the state’s lethal injection protocol does not mention cutdowns and only states that “the standard procedure for inserting IV access will be used.”
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