DIYbanter - View Single Post - OT Justice Department resumes capital punishment

rbowman

On 07/26/2019 02:41 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:14:26 -0700, Oren wrote:

U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff will be busy in December and
January Barr ordered the government to adopt a new method for
executing prisoners, replacing its lethal cocktail with injections of
a single drug, pentobarbital. (just one "hot shot")

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/25/justice-department-resumes-use-death-penalty-schedules-executions/1825792001/

The country is awash in fentanyl. Why not just use that?

You beat me to it... I've never understood what the fancy drug
cocktails were all about. just give the perp a hotshot and he'll be just
as dead as his buddies on the street.