• PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    Firing squad is messy, fentanyl I’m guessing being a controlled substance/opioid makes it a no go. I remember reading a few years back that the EU was ceasing the export of the chemical traditionally used in lethal injections in the U.S. so my guess is they’re experimenting with a replacement they can source easily.

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      so my guess is they’re experimenting with a replacement they can source easily.

      This is precisely it. The reason lethal injection is so commonly fucked up in the US is because there is no standardized cocktail of drugs used. It varies literally prison by prison, and doesn’t even need a physician’s approval. I can’t remember where I read it, but I recall reading about one state where the drugs chosen were chosen by the prison warden solely by vibes

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        5 months ago

        and doesn’t even need a physician’s approval

        Never gonna get a physicians approval since physicians take an oath not to kill people. That problem comes up a lot, as soon as the people giving you the drugs find out you’re using it for lethal injection they go “What the fuck what’s wrong with you no you can’t have more”

    • Sinistar [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Not only can they not easily source the chemicals, they can’t get doctors and nurses to administer the shots, so lethal injections tend to be administered by cops who don’t know what they’re doing which is why the previous attempt to kill this inmate failed.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Firing squad ruins the veil of civility, and it also makes the pigs get PTSD from THINKING they killed a man. So instead we have to play Mengele to give it some kind of civil and scientific legitimacy