– Why is it so hard to find drugs for lethal injection in executions?

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Canada already has MAiD – medical assistance in dying, and as far as I know this assistance does not cause pain. Why is it so difficult for the US to use similar methods?

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Part of the reason is that the EU banned the export of drugs used for executions in 2011. Many larger medicinal and chemical companies are from the EU, and they’d rather not move their headquarters and/or factories in order to sell a few hundred dollars worth of drugs.

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