How do you discipline someone who botched an execution?

Oklahoma prison officials failed to properly administer the lethal injection drugs on a death row inmate recently.

There were multiple attempts to access his veins in his arms that were unsuccessful. They then attempted to access the femoral artery (!) and administer the drugs. They damaged the vessel and instead injected the lethal drugs into his surrounding tissues, causing him to live for more than 45 minutes and endure a torturous death.

My hospital protocol is that you must get another professional to attempt to find a vein if you fail twice. It is not uncommon to use ultrasound to locate an appropriate vein. And that’s just for placing an IV.

Why they would place the drugs in an artery so that the drugs must travel through the capillary beds and then back to the heart is beyond me. Why they made multiple unsuccessful attempts and then chose the femoral artery is beyond me. I don’t claim to know what protocols are in that county in Oaklahoma, but it is my opinion they tortured this man and then were guilty of negligence in his care. Even if the ultimate care was to administer lethal drugs, they failed to do so without causing undue pain to the patient.

Thoughts? Should they be reprimanded? Should criminal charges be filed?