APR 10,
2014
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Kermit Bye attacked the secret use of
compounding pharmacies to supply drugs deployed in lethal injections in a
February 26, 2014 Missouri execution of Michael Taylor, 47, for the 1989 rape
and murder of a 15-year-old girl. Taylor was put to death with a whopping dose
of pentobarbital obtained from a pharmacist whose identity the state refused to
disclose.
Both the Eighth Circuit and the United States Supreme
Court refused to grant Taylor a stay of execution. Bye, however, dissented and
drafted a passionate opinion about the secrecy shrouding execution practice in
the United States.
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