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Companies Won't Sell Kentucky Lethal Injection Drug

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Brett Barrouquere's AP report via Google News.  It's also available via ABC News.  Here are extended excerpts.  Those following the issue will want to read the entire article Amid a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug, documents obtained under a freedom of information request show two pharmaceutical companies declined to sell Kentucky a supply of the sedative. The state e-mails obtained by The Associated Press show one firm, KRS Global Biotechnology of Boca Raton, Fla., explained its refusal by saying there was no doctor involved in the purchase of sodium thiopental, even though Kentucky law bars physicians from being involved in administering executions. No reason was given in the e-mail traffic between state officials and pharmacists for a canceled order from the other company, Spectrum Chemical and Laboratory Products of Gardenia, Calif...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).