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There's absolutely nothing stopping states from reinstituting the firing squad: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/05/664548834/tennessee-death-row-inmates-request-dea
by roywiggins 7y ago
There's absolutely nothing stopping states from reinstituting the firing squad: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/05/664548834/tennessee-death-row-inmates-request-death-by-firing-squad https://www.npr.org/2018/11/05/664548834/tennessee-death-row...
The reason why states can't source drugs to use them for killing is because, surprise, the corporations that manufacture them refuse to sell them for that purpose.
- pmiller2 7y agoThe corporations refuse because they’re afraid of the PR backlash. Let’s not hide the fact that it’s all about money.
- nulbyte 7y agoFair enough, but that doesn't negate their refusal to sell them for that purpose. They refuse to sell them for that purpose because they know the state will pay far less than they would otherwise lose from public scrutiny. I'm okay with that.
- pmiller2 7y agoIt doesn’t negate it, but it does taint it. You know that if they thought the calculation would come out the other way and they’d make money, they’d be actively soliciting prisons to buy their drugs for executions.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y agoActually, it's simply illegal for companies in the EU to export drugs for use in executions.
- pmiller2 7y agoYeah, and corporations never do illegal things for profit in the EU, either.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y agoExcept this is unlikely to be a big business opportunity, plus chances are someone would notice (executions in the US aren't exactly secret), so I would be pretty surprised if big pharma companies would try to circumvent this.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoThe condemned convict might get lead poisoning.