With Louisiana’s first execution in four years set for just three weeks from today — and the state unable to obtain the necessary lethal-injection drug from the sole mass producer of the drug — observers say the state may have to resort to finding a specialty pharmacy willing to make a small batch.
The approach isn’t novel. A handful of states have conducted executions in the past year using lethal drugs bought from such operations, called compounding pharmacies. But acquiring the drug isn’t easy, and it isn’t without concern or controversy.That’s because compounding pharmacies are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and because a compounding pharmacy was recently linked to scores of deaths as a result of unsanitary conditions.continue to read here
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