Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination
theguardian.com
Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’
Utah officials said on Saturday that they are scrapping plans to use an untested lethal drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case. They will instead seek out a drug that’s been used previously in executions in numerous states.
Defense attorneys for Taberon Dave Honie, 49, had sued in state court to stop the use of the drug combination, saying it could cause the defendant “excruciating suffering”.
The execution scheduled for 8 August would be Utah’s first since the 2010 execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, by firing squad.
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You've just alluded to a toxic reaction due to overdose. The term overdose does not exclusively refer to the median fatal dose, nor does it hinge on the risk of lethality.
This is in the context of execution.
It's in the context of someone moving the conversation from "a cannibus overdose is impractical as a means of execution" to "there is no such thing as a cannibus overdose".
Okay, point taken, but - Oxford's definition of overdose reads "an excessive and dangerous dose of a drug", emphasis mine, though that may differ from a clinical definition. My point was that it's basically impossible to consume enough THC to require medical attention about it, even if you're trying.
Though I'm realizing now that this conversation is taking place in the context of executing a man with it, so the point may be moot anyway.
If you don't think panic attacks are dangerous, you've never had one.