The drugs Texas uses in executions are “substantially likely to cause a person to feel extreme physical pain,” a death row inmate’s attorneys wrote to the Supreme Court.
An inmate put to death with the drugs in question would be at risk of “extraordinary physical pain,” the lawsuit says.
Using the pharmacy’s drugs would be an “unreasonable risk of a cruel execution,” his attorneys wrote to the governor.
Greenpark Compounding Pharmacy gave kids the wrong medicine. It forged documents. Its employees didn’t wash their hands adequately. So why did the state with the most executions hire it to make lethal injection drugs?
BuzzFeed Newsは、テネシー州が所有する死刑執行用の電気椅子に関する資料を入手した。1985年に設置されて以来、これまでに1度しか使われたことのないその椅子にいま、注目が集まっている。
Documents obtained by BuzzFeed News show the original sales pitch for the Tennessee machine in 1985. The chair has only been used once so far.
The announcement comes a day after a BuzzFeed News report about the decision to keep those names secret.
The attorney general’s office felt it “would not be prudent” to release the results.
The raid on President Trump’s personal lawyer may have involved a surprising period in Cohen’s life. The special counsel has been asking questions about it and the controversial businesspeople who were his partners at the time.
The state of Missouri did everything it could to keep secret where it got the drugs it used to put 17 inmates to death. Now, BuzzFeed News has discovered the supplier is a pharmacy repeatedly found to engage in hazardous practices that could put patients — and convicts — at risk.
When states ran out of execution drugs, they started paying tens of thousands of dollars to Chris Harris, a salesman in India with no pharmaceutical background.
The state of Missouri did everything it could to keep secret where it got the drugs it used to put 17 inmates to death. Now, BuzzFeed News has discovered the supplier is a pharmacy repeatedly found to engage in hazardous practices that could put patients — and convicts — at risk.
Greenpark Compounding Pharmacy gave kids the wrong medicine. It forged documents. Its employees didn’t wash their hands adequately. So why did the state with the most executions hire it to make lethal injection drugs?
The state pays its small team of executioners in cash to limit the paper trail. The state isn’t sending proper paperwork to the IRS — experts told BuzzFeed News that it could be contributing to tax evasion.
In March, Georgia postponed an execution after they discovered the drug had particles floating in it. “It looked more like clumps of cottage cheese floating in the solution.”
Texas and Arizona bought 2,000 vials of a now-banned anesthetic from a supplier in India. Thursday, Justice Department lawyers told a court the FDA "has issued a final decision, refusing admission of the detained drugs into the United States."
A small compounding pharmacy in Oklahoma sold execution drugs for at least three Missouri executions. When investigators later inspected the pharmacy, they found “significant” problems, and it later defaulted on its bank loans.
Using the pharmacy’s drugs would be an “unreasonable risk of a cruel execution,” his attorneys wrote to the governor.
The state executed Oscar Ray Bolin on Thursday for stabbing three young women to death in the 1980s. It was the first execution of 2016.
The FDA says it will seize Nebraska’s drugs when they arrive from India. But the seller says he’s sold to “a few” other states as well.