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Letter: The real, grim criteria for execution drugs

Published 11 October 2017

From Gregory Sams, London, UK

So executioners in Florida experiment on condemned prisoners with untried cocktails of drugs because pharmaceutical companies deny them their tried and trusted ingredients (2 September, p 4). Presumably they ignore the reliable and readily available alternative, morphine, for fear that the condemned prisoner's last moments might be pleasurable.

Issue no. 3147 published 14 October 2017

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