Manufacturer asks Oklahoma to return drug used for lethal injections

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Manufacturer asks Oklahoma to return drug used for lethal injections

Associated Press in Oklahoma City
Thursday 30 April 2015 23.41 BST

The Illinois-based manufacturer of a drug used in Oklahoma’s lethal injection process is asking the state to return any supplies it may have obtained and not to use its products to execute prisoners.

In a letter to Oklahoma’s attorney general, Scott Pruitt, the drug manufacturer Akorn also said it was taking steps to ensure that the sedative midazolam no longer be made available to states for use in executions. The company said the painkiller hydromorphone, which Oklahoma does not use, also will not be available.

“If your prisons have purchased Akorn products directly or indirectly for use in capital punishment we ask that you immediately return our products for a full refund,” Akorn’s general counsel, Joseph Bonaccorsi, wrote in the 4 March letter.

Bonaccorsi and a company spokesman did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment on Thursday.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/manufacturer-oklahoma-return-drug-lethal-injections-midazolam

[randys1]

1. I bet they wont, some people just love killing people

Death penalty is HORRIFIC and BARBARIC

[darkangel218]

2. Thank you, randys1. You are absolutely correct.

There is no reason, never has been and and never should be for killing people under the pretense of "penalty". It makes me sick to my stomach

[1HappyDemocrat]

3. SMH

Oklahoma may try to resist. They will not like returning anything that they can kill a criminal with. They would take up experimenting with lethal drugs on their own prison population if the could...it is a sad thing.