The problem is that pretty much almost every organisation and individual refuses to take part in preparing the lethal injections, as, funnily enough, it's actually broadly illegal to make pharmaceutical products with the intent of killing people.
So the government has to lie to whoever they are buying it from that it's for something else. So the government receives injections that are safe and won't kill anyone. But then the government needs to find people and convince them to make it lethal, but they also can't actually tell people to make it lethal, as pretty much anyone who knows what they are doing would lose their medical license if they did it. As funny enough compounding pharmacies are tightly regulated who would have guessed.
So these lethal injections have to be prepared by people who don't know what they are doing and have extremely low ethical standards to both practice compounding pharmacy without a license and do so to kill people. So you end up with non-lethal injections that have been successfully made idiot-proof, and the stooges are unable to make them lethal, so people survive all the time. So the whole thing is just a circus.
Keep in mind all the government would need to actually do is flood the room with N2, and people would peacefully pass in their sleep. But laws and regulations about stopping people from dying get in the way of people dying, funnily enough, forcing the government into the circus of lethal injections.
It is very rare that an inmate can successfully sue the state, although I'm not sure what the precedent is for a botched execution. Probably still a hard sell because legally they did -less- harm than was legally intended.
Thats kinda the catch 22 here. They technically put her through the death penalty and for all accounts she did her punishment. I am seriously wondering if she is now free or they will just do it again.
it's worse when you realize the intended mix is likely horrifically painful. the n2 thing is quite literally just not done bc the people in charge of these programs specifically believe causing pain is part of their job
I wish that were true for people facing the death penalty for horrific crimes, but sodium pentobarbital has been thoroughly tested and if correctly administered, it is painless. That is why they use it for pets.
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u/-TheDerpinator- 14h ago
You don't survive lethal injections. The injections turn out to not be lethal.