With pharmaceutical companies increasingly reluctant to sell their products to prison systems for use in executions, another segment of American business is offering to help. The Association for Convenience Foods and Motor Fuel Retailing Retailers says that convenience store employees are often “made deceased” during armed robberies, and association member stores are offering to allow death row inmates to work night shifts at their properties in order to facilitate proper and efficient killing. Convenience store owners in Arkansas, Missouri, and Michigan propose making their locations available to correctional facilities for a flat fee of $5,000 per night. The death row prisoners would be trained in how to use the cash register, restock shelves, and project a sour attitude. When an armed robber appears, the inmate would be required to mouth off, including calling the robber a “pansy” if he doesn’t immediately fire his weapon. A medical technician will be on hand to determine if the shot was fatal, and if it wasn’t, the prisoner will simply be required to ingest a days-old hot dog to finish the job.