Quote Originally Posted by Sp4 View Post
There are those who say that that should be the right and only way to do it (not that I agree with it). I would have thought that after years of doing this, they have some sort of chemical cocktail down that has to be used and nothing else is permitted.
they did - several actually - they were highly effective - thankfully the EU stepped in and threatened European companies who were supplying part of the chemical cocktail with prosecution - the European companies thus stopped supplying the drugs and now the US states which practice execution have a shortage of the drugs they need - leading them to experiment with other more available cocktails - which leads us right here...

honestly as others have said there are far better methods that are tried and tested and don't require ANY drugs - Long drop hanging and the Guillotine are by far the best alternative... I am not sure why they are so determined to keep using lethal injection...