Why is a paralyzing agent used in lethal injection?

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So I can understand a drug to knock a person out and then a drug to kill them, but then why a drug in-between to also paralyze them?

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That’s for executions with 3 drugs which was the original protocol, but executions with 1 drug are also common now as in Texas.

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