This prevents accountability though.
"Dr. David Lubarsky's statement is included in a new court filing entered late Thursday amid an
ongoing legal challenge of Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol. He wrote that Irick “experienced the feeling of choking, drowning in his own fluids, suffocating, being buried alive, and the burning sensation caused by the injection of the potassium chloride.”
The documents also state Tennessee failed to follow its own protocol during Irick's execution, raising questions about whether executioners ever intended to ensure Irick
was unable to feel the pain caused by the second and third lethal injection drugs. "