Thursday, May 29, 2014

Missouri Attorney General Pitches Plan To Avoid Botched Lethal Injections

By Carey Gillam

May 29 (Reuters) - Missouri should fund and operate its own drug laboratory to mix lethal injections for executions, a move that could help circumvent the problems it and other states are having obtaining the drugs they need, the state's top prosecutor said on Thursday.

Setting up a state laboratory would take compounding pharmacies out of the system, and eliminate the secrecy about where lethal injections drugs are coming from, said Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.

"As a matter of policy, Missouri should not be reliant on merchants whose identities must be shielded from public view or who can exercise unacceptable leverage over this profound state act," Koster said in a speech to Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis conference.
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