In large enough doses, morphine depresses breathing while keeping dying patients relatively comfortable until the end. So why can’t death row prisoners use lethal amounts of morphine instead of a dodgy cocktail of drugs that become difficult to get as soon as drug companies realize what they’re being used for?
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Orrrrr…
You just don’t have a death penalty. Problem solved.
No?
Ultimately the deliberate decision to kill a human who is aware you are going to do it to them even when they aren’t actually actively resisting can sometimes just be darned difficult and frightfully complicated especially when you yourself aren’t actually a murderous individual. When you’re not really comfortable with doing it, and there is a lot of rules and checkboxes on a long form that has to be checked.
A drug overdose typically doesn’t check a lot of those checkboxes.
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