After inmate appears to struggle during Georgia execution, medical experts split on humanenessJune 27, 2011Media· Associated Press: Howard Nearman, chairman of the anesthesiology department at the School of Medicine, weighed in on whether an execution in Atlanta went awry when an inmate jerked his head throughout the procedure. “As he’s going to sleep, there could be many kinds of reactions. He could have had the same reaction with sodium thiopental,” Nearman said. “And he could have been faking it. Anything’s possible.”
