Showing posts with label Okla. pharmacy responds to Mo. execution drug suit. Show all posts
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Okla. pharmacy responds to Mo. execution drug suit

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma pharmacy has submitted a sealed response to a Missouri death row inmate's lawsuit accusing it of illegally providing Missouri with a made-to-order drug to be used in his lethal injection.
The Apothecary Shoppe, of Tulsa, filed its response to Michael Taylor's lawsuit last week after getting permission from U.S. District Judge Terrence Kern to keep its response sealed. The company hasn't publicly acknowledged that it supplies a compounded version of pentobarbital to Missouri for use in lethal injections, as Taylor alleges, and says it can't because of a Missouri law requiring the identities of those on the state's execution team to be kept confidential.
"It's based on Missouri law," was all that one of the pharmacy's attorneys, Michael Lewis, would say about the case when reached by phone Monday.
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