Finding willing executioners could become a practical obstacle

Evidence

If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds this ruling, states will face the ghastly task of mass executions—if the states can find executioners to carry them out. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2096

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• QUESTION: Worth chasing: after execution-drug shortages and EU bans on lethal-injection drugs, what actually happens to states’ ability to recruit personnel willing to kill?
• XREF: connects to: Mass killing emerged as a practical last resort once removal schemes failed — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1606