trained in executing the protocol. He contends that it is impermissible for many veterinarians to use this combination of chemicals to euthanize animals, and he submitted declarations by Dr. Corey Weinstein, a doctor in private practice who is a medical consultant to prisoner organizations, describing possible complications and executions by lethal injection in California and elsewhere that appeared to be flawed,1 and by Dr. Mark Heath, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Columbia University, describing the effects of pancuronium bromide.


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Woodford countered with a declaration from its experts indicating that a condemned inmate who is administered five grams of thiopental sodium will be rendered unconscious, and not experience pain for the time period necessary to complete the execution. Specifically, Dr. Dershwitz, a board-certified anesthesiologist on the faculty atA Yazidi girl who escaped after she was captured by ISIS jihadists said she was raped every day and attempted to kill herself.

The woman, who only identified herself as “Ekhlas,” told The BBC she was 14-years-old when ISIS fighters captured her in 2014. She and thousands of other Yazidi women were kidnapped in northern Iraq by the terrorist group. Ekhlas was held captive by an ISIS fighter.

“Every day for six months he raped me,” Ekhlas told the BBC. “I tried to kill myself.”

Ekhlas said her captor chose her out of a group of 150 other women.

“He picked me out of 150 by drawing lots,” Ekhlas said. “He was so ugly, like a beast, with his long hair. He smelt so bad, I was so frightened I couldn’t look