alright, answered my own question.
http://www.csg.org/pubs/capitolideas/enews/issue65_4.aspx
last month, hospira—the sole u.s. Company approved to manufacture the drug—announced it will no longer produce sodium thiopental. This move followed a global campaign by death penalty opponents and pressure by italian government officials after the company sought to shift production of the drug to an italian plant.
I'm not sure how I really feel about the death penalty, but that is better than an electric chair or an elaborate cocktail of drugs IMO.

Because the cocktail keeps fucking up.

Electric chair I see, but how is it better then drug cocktail?![]()
I would imagine a bullet to the head kills you pretty quick.
AWESOME. I have my fingers crossed for beheadings and hanging.

If you read the crazy cocktails, it makes you wonder if they are going to use drugs, why not just O.D. the person on something that makes them go to sleep like morphine or sleeping pills. Why the elaborate cocktails?



I've never understood this either.
Are they specifically formulated to deny them a painless death?![]()
I would imagine a bullet to the head kills you pretty quick. Even if you are not officially dead, you are basically knocked out instantly.
I have heard of many drug executions going badly. If you read the crazy cocktails, it makes you wonder if they are going to use drugs, why not just O.D. the person on something that makes them go to sleep like morphine or sleeping pills. Why the elaborate cocktails?