Nevada and Nebraska executioners are turning to fentanyl - NBC News

Scott Dozier appears in court on Sept. 11, 2017, at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. George Romero / KSNV

“Everything happens for a reason,” Sandoval wrote in a letter to the paper.

The combination of drugs that Nevada hopes to use on Dozier, who was convicted of killing and dismembering a drug associate in 2002, does not include potassium chloride.

“If the first two drugs don’t work as planned, or if they are administered incorrectly, which has already happened in so many cases … you would be awake and conscious, desperate to breathe and terrified but unable to move at all,” Dr. Mark Heath, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University, told

The Washington Post.

“It would be an agonizing way to die," he said, "but the people witnessing wouldn’t know anything had gone wrong because you wouldn’t be able to move.”

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