Another factor that makes inventory different from other assets is that its usefulness can actually diminish over time. Cash, for instance, maintains its usefulness to you over time.
Lethal injection is done by using three chemicals. The chemicals are usually sodium thiopental (an anesthetic), pancuronium bromide (used to paralyze the person being injected), and potassium chloride (to stop the heart so that the person being injected dies).
How Lethal Injection Works. Prisoners are strapped to this gurney in the preparation room just outside the execution chamber at North Carolina's Central Prison. Once IV tubes have been inserted into the prisoner's arms, the gurney is rolled into the chamber. Few people know when there are only a few minutes left in their lives.