Can't they put 'em on hold and use the money for schools?
"States go to unusual lengths to get execution drug" by Greg Bluestein, Associated Press / March 26, 2011
ATLANTA — Prison officials around the country have been going to extraordinary — and, in at least one case, legally questionable — lengths to obtain a scarce lethal injection drug, securing it from middlemen in Britain and a manufacturer in India and borrowing it from other states to keep their executions on track, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press.
But you can't buy foreign pharmaceuticals lest they cut into drug company profits.
And how sick is this, readers?
“You guys in AZ are life savers,’’ California prisons official Scott Kernan e-mailed a counterpart in Arizona, with what may have been unintentional irony in appreciation for 12 grams of the drug sent in September. “Buy you a beer next time I get that way.’’
Well, NOW YOU KNOW the MENTALITY of FASCIST STATE PUKES! They CARE NOTHING for YOUR LIFE or anyone else except their elite masters.
The wheeling and dealing comes amid a severe shortage of sodium thiopental, a sedative that is part of the three-drug lethal injection cocktail used by nearly all the 34 death penalty states.
The kind of drink you don't want.
The shortage started last year, after Hospira Inc., the sole US manufacturer of the drug and the only sodium thiopental maker approved by the Food and Drug Administration, stopped making it.
As supplies dwindled, six states — Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Nebraska, and Tennessee — obtained sodium thiopental overseas, with several citing Georgia as the trailblazer....
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And the culture of death lives on in AmeriKa.
