State Offers 'Do It Yourself' Death Row

“As states have faced challenges to carrying out executions by lethal injection, various work-arounds and alternatives have been proposed, including the return of electric chairs and firing squads. Arizona may have come up with the most original concept yet: an invitation for lawyers to help kill their own clients.

With drugs that can legally be used for lethal injections in short supply, the Arizona department of corrections’ latest execution protocol states that attorneys for death row inmates are welcome to bring along their own.

The protocol says that “the inmate’s counsel or other third parties acting on behalf of the inmate’s counsel” may provide the department with a sedative, pentobarbital, or an anesthetic, sodium pentothal, if they can obtain it “from a certified or licensed pharmacist, pharmacy, compound pharmacy, manufacturer, or supplier”.

Attorneys, though, said the idea is ludicrous. Megan McCracken, a lethal injection expert at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, said the clause is “unprecedented, wholly novel and frankly absurd. A prisoner or a prisoner’s lawyer simply cannot obtain these drugs legally, or legally transfer them to the department of corrections, so it’s hard to fathom what the Arizona department was thinking in including this nonsensical provision as part of its execution protocol.”

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[ARCWuLF]

The state should not be allowed to murder its citizens. EVER.

[HighlandChicken]

What a terrific idea I'm sure nothing could go wrong with this.

[Youtuber-qbrx]

When you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world does not change.

[NekoSteamBoy]

Its time to get rid of the Death Row we dont life in the dark ages anymore ....

[SeptimusPrime]

I'm anti Death Penalty, to me it's never made sense to demonstrate that killing is wrong! To me all that says killing is wrong if you're a person, but it's okay if you're a giant bureaucracy of a court!

[ThomasClark]

Get rid of the death penalty altogether...

[SewerKid]

It's just harder and harder to put the U.S. on the same category as first world socieities. You guys seem to have so little in common with other countries that aren't as loud and flashy, but better educated, healthier and more peaceful like Canada, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Holland....having money doesn't buy class, and having power doesn't make a country advanced or modern.

[chrispope]

Arizona needs to just abolish the death penalty.

[Boszziuryayok]

They're just getting lazy at this point.

[breakfast_burrito]

America, this is why the world thinks you're weird. Exactly that type of shit.
- Sincerely, Europe

[afaegfsgsdef]

If you are rich, bring your own drugs...
If you are poor, suffer for hours...

[charlidog]

We put animals down every day. Htf can they mess this up?
I say let the convict decide life sentence or death penalty.

[bhromorrahman]

If you want to execute cheap, easy and without much problem, ask the french, they'll show you!

[stephanoya]

Any society that condemns murder should not kill its own citizen. It's hypocrisy and cruelty.

[shababsbotten]

"bring along their own" lOOOl sounds like a fun picnic party where everyone brings their own snacks

[eddebrock]

Before execution:
-"Here, brought my death drug!"
-"...this is a saline solution"

[alexp]

Just give em' whatever Kellyanne is taking, she looks great.

[planswalkr]

Sure, I'll bring my own drugs. Oops, that was just saline solution? Well, my bad.

[jamiecox]

maybe our president can show us how it works?!?!? 😁😂😅😄😨

[gregcampwriter]

Bullets cost $0.50 a round or so. We should quit being wimpy about the subject. The only question is whether the person is guilty or not.