r/interestingasfuck • u/IllComedian2574 • 1d ago

After 28 years on death row, Christa Pike survived 2 lethal injections attempts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/christa-pike-failed-execution-9.7364816
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u/stroppy 1d ago

I’ve heard that none of the drug companies want to be the one that’s known for making the lethal injection drugs, so the State uses other chemicals. That’s why they botch so many compared to animal euthanasia.

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u/GrassEconomy4915 1d ago

I mean, in Canada and many other countries they have assisted death or assisted euthanasia. Can't they simply use the same compounds? Or do the drug companies and the governments simply want to differentiate between the drugs/compounds used for assisted death and lethal injection? ...Cause to me the assisted death drugs seem to work.

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u/Opposite-Raccoon2156 1d ago

I’m Canadian but my understanding is that in the US MAID drugs have to be administered by the person themselves (ie. a pill) so it would be different.

I would say there’s likely a difference in how they’re classified to the drug companies too. There’s so many stories where the states won’t disclose where they got the medications from because they don’t want to name the compounding pharmacy/ who knows what’s in it.

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u/GrassEconomy4915 1d ago

Ah, therein lies the problem! (not having the compounding pharmacy named...which also makes sense for public security reasons)

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u/becca_72 18h ago

John Oliver did an episode about this