[Boogieman]

“It also has multiple manufacturers, so the chances of some PC bleeding heart pharmaceutical company trying to avoid sales to a correctional institution becomes all that more difficult.”

If this stuff keeps up, it might be a sensible investment to just open a pharmaceutical company only to produce the execution drugs that the rest won’t. You’ll have an instant monopoly, guaranteed client list, and you won’t need to care about boycotts because you won’t have any other customers.

[MAexile]

If this stuff keeps up, it might be a sensible investment to just open a pharmaceutical company only to produce the execution drugs that the rest won’t. You’ll have an instant monopoly, guaranteed client list, and you won’t need to care about boycotts because you won’t have any other customers.

I considered doing this after my previous employer laid me off.

The synthesis doesn't look too hard, I really don't have to worry about impurities too much, and I might not have to run all year, just make enough for he upcoming executions.

[Vigilanteman]

You have any idea what it costs to get FDA approval for a drug? And to off what? Less than 100 perps per year in the entire country? Do we even average one a week in Texas? I've heard the Lone Star State accounts for something like 60% of all executions nationwide.

Much more cost effective just to build a gallows and use a rope. Or phenobarbital.