It was good enough for Jack the Dripper Kevorkian to use in his “thanatron”, to kill patients, up until the time his medical license was revoked. He then switched to the use of carbon monoxide.
Kevorkian was eulogized in the New York Times as: “Fiercely principled and equally inflexible, he rarely dated and never married. He lived a penurious life, eating little, avoiding luxury…”
There has been an outcry that the use of sodium thiopental for lethal injection in capital punishment is inhumane, for various reasons, including the fact that it is very short acting, and the person might not be unconscious when the succinyl choline is used to paralyze, and the potassium chloride is used to stop the heart.
Things that make you say hmmmmmmm….
*Note- Sodium thiopental has recently been made unavailable for use in lethal injections, originally due to objections by international suppliers, and a number of states have substituted sodium pentobarbital.
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