Death penalty advocates frame drug shortages as abolitionist conspiracy tactics

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“There is no difficulty in using a sedative such as pentobarbital. It’s done every day in animal shelters throughout the country. But what we have is a conspiracy to choke off capital punishment by limiting the availability of drugs” (Lyman, 2013). Professor Robert Blecker at the New York Law School likewise attributes the objections to an abolitionist strategy for rescinding the death penalty: “It’s an abolitionist tactic to gum up the works. I know why they’re doing it. From their perspective, every death delayed is a day in favor of abolition. It’s just another tactic” (Lyman, 2013). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1914