NekoFever
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What I don't understand is why I always hear about them using a "new" drug for lethal injection. Aren't there probably dozens of absolutely proven drugs that will kill a person in seconds, and minutes at most?
OR, are we always getting these new drugs because lawyers are fighting to tell us how the current drug being used isn't "humane", so the government is forced to use a new one?
Either way, this shouldn't really be this complicated. I don't believe this guy suffered any more than a person on an operating table suffers through their heart surgery, but regardless it's silly we're still using "new" drugs at this point. I don't have much empathy for murderers.
Most of the drugs come from European pharmaceutical companies, and they've been banned from exporting their products to countries where they'll be used for executions since 2011. States are just running out of stockpiles now, which is why these stories have started happening.