Interesting that the article, at least the excerpt, doesn’t mention
WHY
the states are having problems getting the drugs for lethal injection.
The pharmies are being pressured by the left to not sell these particular drugs to the states where lethal injection is used for capital punishment.
As always, the left’s intent never takes into account human behavior or “the market”. They feel good about themselves for denying the states the means of lethal injection, and the states are considering FIRING SQUADS as an alternative.
But... the lefties feel good about themselves, and that’s all that matters.
I believe what actually happened is that the two pharma companies that primarily made these drugs got bought by European companies. And the EU ordered the parent companies to stop selling these drugs for executions.
The practical effect is that the courts are now going to start finding all of these alternatives “cruel and unusual”, and the death penalty will come to a screeching halt. On the books, but unenforceable as a practical matter.
The state had intended to use propofol, a drug that has never been used for capital punishment, for the Oct. 23 execution of Allen Nicklasson, who was convicted of killing a man who stopped to help him after his car broke down in 1994. But the plan risked triggering European Union curbs on the drug's export, raising alarm among doctors they could lose access to a medication used in 80% of procedures requiring anesthesia, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304500404579129782882624724