Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts

Monday, January 13, 2014

Oklahoma carried out an execution on Thursday, reportedly using a combination of drugs that included pentobarbital. The inmate's last words were "I feel my whole body burning." The Oklahoma Department of corrections wouldn't comment on if the pentobarbital was obtained from a compounding pharmacy

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Missouri Lawmakers Call For Investigation Into State's Execution Method-The calls follow a report by St. Louis Public Radio and the Beacon that found the department bought its execution drug, pentobarbital, from an Oklahoma compounding pharmacy that isn’t licensed to sell here

Several state lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how the Missouri Department of Corrections has carried out executions in the previous months.
The calls follow a report by St. Louis Public Radio and the Beacon that found the department bought its execution drug, pentobarbital,  from an Oklahoma compounding pharmacy that isn’t licensed to sell here.
Under normal circumstances, the seller could be committing a felony.
“I don’t want our state to be able to do things the average citizen could not do,” House Minority Whip John Rizzo of Kansas City said. “I think it’s a very real possibility that our state is obtaining this drug from another state without the proper protocol.”
The Democrat is filing a bill on Monday that would create a temporary commission to see if the state was guilty of any wrongdoing. It would also place a hold on executions while they investigate.

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Missouri is going too far on death penalty secrecy: A recent investigation by St. Louis Pubic Radio and the St. Louis Beacon upped the ante by pinpointing a compounding company in Oklahoma as the state’s possible, unlicensed source.

Updated: 2014-01-13T02:37:51Z
January 12

By MARY SANCHEZ

The Kansas City Star
 
The executioner was always hooded. Who fired the lethal shot? Who dropped the guillotine blade? Neither was revealed.
The modern equivalent still applies. But Missouri is stretching it to a ridiculous and possibly illegal level.
Missouri is so intent on carrying out state-sanctioned murder that it might wind up slammed for breaking federal law.
Last week, the U.S. attorneys of the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri asked the Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations to look into Missouri’s efforts to shield the drug company that provides lethal-injection doses of pentobarbital. The move was prompted by questions from death-penalty opponents.continue to read here

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/12/4747460/missouri-is-going-too-far-on-death.html#storylink=cpy

Read more The executioner was always hooded.
Who fired the lethal shot? Who dropped the guillotine blade? Neither was revealed.
The modern equivalent still applies. But Missouri is stretching it to a ridiculous and possibly illegal level.
Missouri is so intent on carrying out state-sanctioned murder that it might wind up slammed for breaking federal law.
Last week, the U.S. attorneys of the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri asked the Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations to look into Missouri’s efforts to shield the drug company that provides lethal-injection doses of pentobarbital. The move was prompted by questions from death-penalty opponents.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/12/4747460/missouri-is-going-too-far-on-death.html#storylink=cpy
here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/12/4747460/missouri-is-going-too-far-on-death.html#storylink=cpy