Arizona unveils new death penalty plan: bring your own lethal injection drugs
Source: The Guardian
Wednesday 15 February 2017 11.30 GMT
As states have faced challenges to carrying out executions by lethal injection, various work-arounds and alternatives have been proposed, including the return of electric chairs and firing squads. Arizona may have come up with the most original concept yet: an invitation for lawyers to help kill their own clients.
With drugs that can legally be used for lethal injections in short supply, the Arizona department of corrections latest execution protocol states that attorneys for death row inmates are welcome to bring along their own.
The protocol says that the inmates counsel or other third parties acting on behalf of the inmates counsel may provide the department with a sedative, pentobarbital, or an anesthetic, sodium pentothal, if they can obtain it from a certified or licensed pharmacist, pharmacy, compound pharmacy, manufacturer, or supplier.
Attorneys, though, said the idea is ludicrous. Megan McCracken, a lethal injection expert at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, said the clause is unprecedented, wholly novel and frankly absurd. A prisoner or a prisoners lawyer simply cannot obtain these drugs legally, or legally transfer them to the department of corrections, so its hard to fathom what the Arizona department was thinking in including this nonsensical provision as part of its execution protocol.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/arizona-death-penalty-bring-your-own-lethal-injection-drugs
47of74
(18,470 posts)This is what happens when you combine psychotic political beliefs with a frighteningly poor educational system.
global1
(25,224 posts)Are you kidding me. There are people out there that call themselves 'lethal injection experts'?
Interesting coversation starter at dinner parties.
Eugene
(61,809 posts)What will it take for them to realize the capital punishment is unworkable?
This reeks of pure desperation.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)But seriously, this is fucking ludicrous!
Bayard
(22,005 posts)Mass murderer is injected with drug that only MAKES him look dead. He wakes up in the morgue, and mayhem ensues.
demmiblue
(36,823 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,450 posts)marybourg
(12,586 posts)operates on the "a donor whispered this in my ear" model of bill drafting.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Dear sweet Christ do these people ever sound this stuff out before they suggest it????