“The constitutional prohibition is against CRUEL punishment”
Actually the constitutional prohibition is again cruel AND unusual. No creative ideas on how to painfully kill the perp. Death by hangings and firing squads were permitted as customary ways to execute perps, regardless of the so-called cruelty.
As far as I am concerned, the perp can die by the same method he or she used on the victim since that is proof the method isn’t unusual, but that would carry it too far. Nevertheless, we have seriously strayed from the civic responsibility to reaffirm the value of human life by demonstrating what happens when one unjustly deprives another of that life. Perps should fear their own date with death.
What the Left is going after here is to shut off the supply of drugs that can be used to carry out executions.
First they convinced big pharma companies that had always sold states the drugs to refuse to supply them for this purpose.
Then they started going after compounding pharmacies and small players who were providing them. The goal is to scare any potential source away from providing these drugs for execution.
If and when they succeed, the death penalty will be finished as practical matter, because they’ll be no way to carry it out.
Unless they want to return to firing squads and electric chairs. Frankly I doubt they have the guts.