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Why is there so much hand wringing over what drugs are used for lethal injections?
Why is there so much hand wringing over what drugs are used for lethal injections? People manage to commit suicide by way of drugs every day. Certainly some are more dependable to achieve that end and they are well known. "Cocktail" combinations are also well known and readily available on the streets. Yet States have constant legal hassles over what is used, if the prisoner has a sniffle, and such. Does a person contemplating suicide think "Not today, I'm too sick"? Why have states not gone with a simple straightforward heroin drip leading to a fatal overdose? Is there a medical ethics reason or is it all legal contortions?
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
It's the whole pain thing. The Constitution says no "Pain and Suffering" so the whiners claim that execution by lethal injection causes pain. Neither side can prove it one way or another so that leads to delays in criminals being put down.
- dobberxLv 78 years ago
Our Constitution (our highest law) clearly prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment" SO the "hand wringing' is about finding the right drug or combination of drugs which will cause death as quickly as painlessly as possible.
Surely, a lingering and/or painful death would be both cruel and unusual.
We, in this country, don't torture or purposely cause suffering because we strive to be better than those we execute.
Is this really so difficult to grasp?