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Consider this: http://www.csg.org/pubs/capitolideas/enews/issue65_4.aspx

It really is creative activists trying things against the will of the people in those states that support capital punishment. I've got a complicated relationship with the death penalty, but that aside I recognize that the only way to change it is through the institutions we have which are empowered to make those changes.

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It really is, but why shouldn't they? The people who express a preference in favor of the death penalty are entitled to their attitudes, but not to freedom from political opposition.

If the "will of the people" is to have sodium thiopental injected into people, why don't the states in question build a plant of their own to manufacture the substance?

It's more a question of having a method codified into law than being stuck with that method. Instead of producing the drugs the states in question will probably just switch to another method of execution.

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