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Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, November 20th, and a man is scheduled to die in a matter of hours in Florida by lethal injection.

He is making an argument, though, that the execution should be stopped.

Why? Because it might be too painful for him.

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robsitz. He has some logic here for why he

might feel more pain than anyone else. I don't know if I've heard this argument necessarily

before, and we have covered a bunch of executions here lately. Yeah, this is the first one that I've

heard that is trying to use a medical condition that he says will make lethal injection be

torturous for him.

We're talking about 63-year-old Richard Barry Randolph.

And his attorneys say, yes, that injecting him with lethal injection will be torturous

because he has lupus.

And lupus, one of the side effects is that you have increased pain sensitivity.

So it causes chronic pain and it leads to nerve sensations, like heightened nerve sensations, basically.

So your central nervous system is basically ramped up.

It's painful.

It could be uncomfortable for people.

Yeah. Something that would be painful to you and I would be extraordinarily painful to somebody who has Luthis.

Okay.

So that's the argument this man is making.

Don't know how far that's going to go, but that's certainly interesting robes as we sit here, getting ready for Florida now to continue a record pace.

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