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‘I’m not ready, brother’: US man to be put to death months after botched execution attempt (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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Kenneth Smith, 58, is facing execution by an untested method that has never before been used in capital punishment in the US. It’s a technique that has been rejected on ethical grounds by veterinarians for the euthanasia of most animals other than pigs: death by nitrogen gas.

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[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well that and a large majority of medical corporations refuse to provide their drugs for this purpose. That was one of the main reasons the "lethal injection cocktail" kept changing, because companies found out their drugs were in it and took legal action.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What about drug cartels? They're happy to provide fentanyl overdose amounts to unsuspecting end users, could they provide the same to jails? It's apparently also pretty cheap, and no injections needed.

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How bout the state just not kill people

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

I'd settle for only killing those who wanted to die... but that would make too much sense, or something.

[–] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Pretty shure they wouldn't supply the US government for executions either...

[–] sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The government seizes a fuckton of narcotics constantly. They could test some of them for purity and use that supply.

[–] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But they are usually stretched with some really bad shit.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

As of late, that seems to be fentanyl, which is only bad if your goal is to survive.

[–] sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

That's where the 'test for purity' comes in. I was thinking just pure fentanyl. I'm sure they seize some diverted pharmaceutical products. Or, they could just make their own... if a cartel can do it, a state government could.

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the CIA is literally part of the US government and they are a big participant in South American drug cartels. Surely they could organize something.

[–] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But they aren't buying it for executions or officially...

If some prison just takes out a liter of diamorphine from "unknown" source there will be questions... And not just from inside the USA...

[–] sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

LE destroys large quantities of seized drugs regularly.