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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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[–] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All medical companys refuse to supply the US government for such things, and if they would use the stuff meant for other purposes for this shit they wouldn't get any medication from anyone anymore. Especially not from European companies as they are legally prohibited from supplying stuff for executions.

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

I guess I'd heard of that. What is the objection of American pharma companies? It must be liability vs. ethics as they're totally glad to maim and kill people daily as long as it's profitable.

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

They don't have the patents for the stuff, European companies hold those parents for the most part... So either don't supply the prisons with the stuff or get the license taken away completely...