– 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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The hippocratic oath has a lot to do with this. Doctors swear to live by a set of ethical standards, which includes never harming a patient. So asking doctors to come up with, and administer, lethal injections is about as bad a thing that they could do to contravene their own rules.

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