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user-inactivated · 2898 days ago · link · · parent · post: Pfizer blocks its drugs from being used in lethal injections in prisons
Not as good news as it seems at first glance; as the article notesWhere the states cannot obtain supplies, some states have elected to bring back draconian methods of carrying out executions. Last year, Utah enacted a law that reinstated the firing squad as a secondary method should the state fail to obtain the drugs needed for a lethal injection. This followed Tennessee’s decision to allow executions by electric chair if the execution drugs are unavailable or lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional