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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We know how to put people to sleep gently, but the people who do that and the tools they use are largely unavailable to executioners and the people who perform executions are not to worried about causing unnecessary pain and suffering to the people they are killing.
Many drugs that can be used to put pets to sleep and assist with suicide aren’t available for executions because generally drug makers don’t want their drugs associated with killing people against their will on purpose.
That is bad PR.
Many drug makers are international and subject to jurisdictions where making money like this would be a potential issue for them, thanks to courts, shareholders and business partners.
Several US states have made secrecy laws to hide where they are getting their drugs from and some US state had to allegedly illegally smuggle some drugs into the country.
In addition to that many medical professionals see it as going against their oath to be actively involved in executions.
Some of the execution methods in the US were developed by amateurs, who only have a very superficial knowledge about how human bodies work.
This leads to executions that are at times extremely drawn out and painful.
Mostly because the people who know how to do it right don’t want to be involved and the people who are involved don’t really care about making it unnecessarily painful.
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