22:57 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA judge in the US state of Georgia has allowed the execution of a convicted murderer to be filmed at the request of another death row inmate.<\/p>\n
Andrew DeYoung, convicted of murdering his parents and sister, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for the second condemned man said filming DeYoung’s execution would show a chemical used in the lethal cocktail causes unnecessary suffering.<\/p>\n
They say the drug does not adequately sedate the inmate and can cause pain.<\/p>\n
The chemical in question, pentobarbital, is commonly used to euthanise animals.<\/p>\n
No final prayer<\/span><\/p>\nSeveral US states have switched to using pentobarbital because of a nationwide shortage of the more traditionally used lethal drug, sodium thiopental.<\/p>\n
DeYoung, 37, was convicted of stabbing his parents and 14-year-old sister to death in 1993 over an inheritance.<\/p>\n
His last meal request was for pizza, grape juice, vanilla ice cream and all-fruit strawberry preserves.<\/p>\n
When asked to make a final statement, DeYoung said he was “sorry to everyone I hurt”.<\/p>\n
He declined the offer of a final prayer.<\/p>\n
When the three-drug injection began, DeYoung blinked and swallowed for about two minutes, then his eyes closed and he became still, according to the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n
He was pronounced dead at 2004EST on Thursday (0004GMT on Friday).<\/p>\n
On Monday, a Fulton County Georgia judge ruled that death row inmate Gregory Walker’s lawyers may have a videotape of DeYoung’s execution.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors had objected to the proposed recording.<\/p>\n
Walker has filed a lawsuit challenging his own death sentence on the grounds that the state’s lethal injection drugs illegally cause pain and suffering.<\/p>\n
He was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of a 23-year-old hotel maid who had stolen drugs and cash from him as he slept in a hotel room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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