Yesterday, Justice Sotomayor's dissent in the Oklahoma case credited the murderer's experts that the procedure risked extreme pain if the midazolam did not sufficiently anesthetize the inmate before the second and third drugs were administered.  Do the statements of baby-rapist-murderer Charles Warner -- "It feels like acid" and "My body is on fire" -- confirm her fears?

Nope.  One of the witnesses was Abby Broyles of Oklahoma City television station KFOR:

KFOR's Abby Broyles says before the three-drug cocktail was administered, Warner said, "It feels like acid," and "My body is on fire."

Before?  What's up with that? 

A year ago, an inmate about to be executed told guards that his lawyer urged him "to fake symptoms of suffocation" during his execution.  See this post. He reportedly told the lawyer no way.  Did Warner receive similar urging and go along with it, but get the timing wrong?  We will never know, but that seems to be the most likely explanation.

Broyles said it did not appear Warner was in pain. He never raised his head off the gurney and did not convulse the way Lockett did last April.

Sean Murphy with the Associated Press said afterwards, "It appeared the sedative worked."