据英国《独立报》报道,美国虽然已经恢复死刑30多年,但缺乏药物让一些州面临行刑难的尴尬境地。报道称,美国最高法院1976年恢复死刑后,药物注射成为首屈一指的行刑选择。执行死刑的32个州都首选药物注射,其次是毒气室和电椅。曾经有一段时间,大多数州都采用三种药物的“鸡尾酒组合”:首先以硫喷妥纳麻醉罪犯,接着用泮库溴铵让罪犯瘫痪,最后采用氯化钾让死囚心脏停止跳动。 According to the British “Independent” newspaper, although the United States has already restored the death penalty for more than 30 years, the lack of drugs has left some states facing the embarrassment of execution. Reported that the United States Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the injection of drugs as the second highest choice of execution. The 32 states that executed the death penalty preferred drug injections, followed by gas chambers and electric chairs. For some time now, most states had adopted three “cocktail combinations” of drugs: first, anesthetizing criminals with thiopental, then paralyzing criminals with pancuronium, and finally using potassium chloride to stop beating the prisoner’s heart.