Eli5: Why can’t prisons just use a large quantity of morphine for executions?

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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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Because morphine is just as hard to get your hands on (legitimately) and those same pharma companies will go nope the fuck nope, the second they see department of corrections order a blue whale sized supply of morphine

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