re: #221 lawhawk

They were good (or at least better) but the drugs being used stopped being made available in the US, so the executioners had to use different drugs that hadn’t been fully evaluated for these situations. Those who carry out the executions aren’t doctors. So they are left guessing at doses, durations, etc.

And we’re left with one botched execution after another.

Were the drugs stopped being available or did the pharmaceutical companies refuse to sell them to the states because they knew what they were used for?