If it’s so easy to overdose and die from certain illicit drugs, why aren’t they used for prisoners receiving lethal injections?

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If it’s so easy to overdose and die from certain illicit drugs, why aren’t they used for prisoners receiving lethal injections?

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Said illicit drugs would be considered inhumane to do so with (aside from the death penalty debate to begin with), because those overdoses can take a long time and be unpredictable and painful, versus lethal injections being a specific mix of drugs that lead to a fast, painless death.

“Easy to overdose on” does not automatically mean “quick to die from”