US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures

HIGHLY misleading headline. I read the headline and thought, "wow, so many executions are occurring in the US that there's not enough of this drug for non-execution purposes"... which is a much more straightforward interpretation than what the article eventually gets into, which is that the use of the drug in a single execution would make an EU regulation kick in.

BOOOOOOO, slashdot editor. Boooo.

If I had to excuse any one country for being squeamish about how its chemical products are used, it would be Germany.
(But maybe Gov Nixon could ask them if they had any leftover Zyklon B hanging around...I bet that stuff doesn't go bad...)

So if you sentence the guy to thirty years, should the jury have to house, feed and guard him?

Mars is perfect for what? It's an unimaginably distant dead rock with nothing on it. Antarctica is a billion times more hospitable.

Because most of the "real firsts" were done by Russia and the U.S. a long time ago. And you've got to start somewhere.

Better off just Australian forums, this isn't a new problem for us.

Of course /. is still a bad idea because most people here still assume no other countries exist.

>And this is the system Democrats want the United States to emulate?

No. Where did you get that idea?