Status Updates From Secrets of the Killing Stat...

Very insightful from chapter one; faux science discussion re the three-drug combo wasn’t based on any empirical evidence, not even euthanizing pets. Just a vague notion of deadness, “Why no? You wanted to make sore the prisoner was dead in the end, so why not add a third drug” was the reasoning bc more is better!?

After the Burger Court ended the federal moratorium on death penalties in 1976, states were so giddy to begin executing people again that they accepted the creation of a “lethal injection” by a man with zero qualifications and zero medical research to back up his decision. For decades and decades and decades people would be (and still are) subject to tortuous deaths by drug concoctions with no medical literature.