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Utah Reinstates Death by Firing Squad | 54 comments (54 topical)

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They can't get Oxy (5.00 / 2) (#8)
by Zorba on Tue Mar 24, 2015 at 09:30:28 AM EST
Pharmaceutical companies stopped selling prisons drugs for lethal injections due to the bad publicity.
States have been using compounding pharmacies to make these drugs, but some of these have also dropped out and states are having trouble acquiring pentobarbital.  They would most likely not be able to acquire Oxy.  Or morphine.  Or anything else that would work.
They could solve all of this by eliminating the death penalty entirely, which is my preferred solution.  The death penalty is barbaric.


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Yeah... (none / 0) (#11)
by ScottW714 on Tue Mar 24, 2015 at 11:14:23 AM EST
...like a prison never confiscates pain killers like Oxy. Joke.

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Beat me to it... (none / 0) (#14)
by kdog on Tue Mar 24, 2015 at 12:44:55 PM EST
though in prison, it's heroin that is readily available, more so than oxy.

The irony...prisons can't buy drugs to kill through the legal pharmaceutical chain, yet the street drugs that will do the job are all up in the prison.

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Remind me to tell about the pruno (5.00 / 1) (#20)
by oculus on Tue Mar 24, 2015 at 01:53:19 PM EST
the jail trustees instantly procured as a substitue for communion wine, which the rules prohibited being brought in.

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If they must execute people in this country, (none / 0) (#17)
by Zorba on Tue Mar 24, 2015 at 01:29:26 PM EST
they could use the heroin that the cops confiscate.  
Not that I'm actually recommending this, because I think that the death penalty is not something a civilized nation should be a part of.
But, there it is.

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True, but (none / 0) (#19)
by Zorba on Tue Mar 24, 2015 at 01:40:19 PM EST
they would not be legally allowed to do so for carrying out the "death penalty."
It's a horrible "joke," all right.
I cannot blame the pharmaceutical companies for refusing to sell any drugs to the prison system here for the purposes of executions.  They do not want the criticism and bad publicity that goes along with that.  The "optics" are bad for them.
I certainly wouldn't do it if I were them.
But then, I wouldn't be willing to facilitate any executions, since I do not approve of the death penalty.

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