Kenneth Smith, 58, is facing execution by an untested method that has never before been used in capital punishment in the US. It’s a technique that has been rejected on ethical grounds by veterinarians for the euthanasia of most animals other than pigs: death by nitrogen gas.
The government seizes a fuckton of narcotics constantly. They could test some of them for purity and use that supply.
But they are usually stretched with some really bad shit.
As of late, that seems to be fentanyl, which is only bad if your goal is to survive.
That’s where the ‘test for purity’ comes in. I was thinking just pure fentanyl. I’m sure they seize some diverted pharmaceutical products. Or, they could just make their own… if a cartel can do it, a state government could.