Criminal defense lawyers and death penalty experts say they have never heard of a state suggesting that condemned inmates can line up drugs to be used in their executions. ———WHY LET PRISONERS SEEK EXECUTION DRUGS? He explained that the policy is unfeasible because the Controlled Substances Act prohibits attorneys and inmates from getting the drugs. The policy would seem to appeal to inmates who have abandoned their appeals and want to speed up their executions. ———WILL INMATES REALLY SEEK THEIR OWN EXECUTION DRUGS?

Source: ABC News February 17, 2017 19:38 UTC