Drug used in federal executions under Trump may cause 'unnecessary pain and suffering,' Garland says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised concerns about the potential for "unnecessary pain and suffering.
44% : Government lawyers said the process of dying by lethal injection was like falling asleep and they called gurneys "beds" and final breaths "snores."
42% : Under Trump, the Justice Department also sanitized the accounts of the executions carried out in 2020 and 2021.
37% : "The pentobarbital protocol was adopted by Bill Barr, attorney general during Trump's first term, to replace a three-drug mix used in the 2000s, the last time federal executions were carried out before Trump was in office.
29% : "Attorney General Merrick Garland's order to withdraw the lethal injection policy comes days before President-elect Donald Trump, who is expected to restart federal executions, is set to return to the White House.
15% : A moratorium on federal executions has been in place since 2021, and only three defendants remain on federal death row after Democratic President Joe Biden converted 37 of their sentences to life in prison.

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