On Jan. 25, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) plans to execute Kenneth Smith by forcing him to breathe pure nitrogen gas, an untested execution method with profound legal and ethical conseq...
I don’t know the actual answer, but here are the excuses that I get when I have asked this question previously.
People have different tolerances and you can’t be sure the dose will kill them
Some people may vomit while dying and may suffocate on the vomit during the event
The people who manufacture legal Fentanyl don’t want to sell it for the death penalty.
These sound like some pretty silly excuses, but I am just a layman. I fail to see why the federal government couldn’t test confiscated Fentanyl until they find something pure and resell it to the states for this purpose.
I don’t know the actual answer, but here are the excuses that I get when I have asked this question previously.
These sound like some pretty silly excuses, but I am just a layman. I fail to see why the federal government couldn’t test confiscated Fentanyl until they find something pure and resell it to the states for this purpose.