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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on March 19, 2014, 04:14:40 PM
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Redfairen (1,242 posts)
Texas obtains new supply of execution drugs from source kept secret
Source: Associated Press
Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month.
But correction officials will not say where they bought the drugs, arguing that information must be kept secret to protect the safety of its new supplier. In interviews with the Associated Press, officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice also refused to say whether providing anonymity to its new supplier of the sedative pentobarbital was a condition of its purchase.
The decision to keep details about the drugs and their source secret puts the agency at odds with past rulings of the state attorney general’s office, which has said the state’s open records law requires the agency to disclose specifics about the drugs it uses to carry out lethal injections.
"We are not disclosing the identity of the pharmacy because of previous, specific threats of serious physical harm made against businesses and their employees that have provided drugs used in the lethal injection process,†said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark.
I feel a parallel coming on... (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014759670)
Star Member hobbit709 (30,131 posts)
1. so they're buying stuff on the black market now?
Response to Redfairen (Original post)
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 09:14 PM
Deep13 (39,010 posts)
2. oh good, I was afraid they might have to stop killing people.
You see DUmmies, execution in Texas is the law of the land. Texas has a right to perform legal medical procedures
and it behooves us all to keep those procedures safe, legal, and rare.
Texas is only exercising its state right under the Constitution. It is sad that it has to acquire the means to perform these legal medical procedures in secret, but when you're dealing with fundies, you do what you must to exercise your rights under the law.
Do you see what I did there?
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EXXON.....premium grade.
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I wouldn't care if they were getting the stuff from a veterinary supply place as long as the keep the line moving and send those bastards to hell.
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I wouldn't care if they were getting the stuff from a veterinary supply place as long as the keep the line moving and send those bastards to hell.
Your tastes are more refined than mine - I don't know why a heavy shovel couldn't work.
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Wed Mar 19, 2014, 05:30 PM
jmowreader (26,949 posts)
8. Rwanda?
No, no, nothing so elaborate as importing drugs from other countries. They're getting their lethal injection drugs from compounding pharmacies in the US. Other states do it; why should Texas be any different?
They just think if anyone knows which pharmacy is making the stuff, "anti-death-penalty activists" (or, more likely, hardcore teabaggers who want to discredit people who are against capital punishment) might go over and throw an empty oil drum through the pharmacy's window.
Agent provocateurs!
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Agent provocateurs!
So pro-DP people would...what? Throw stuff through the window of a place to discredit people who protest something that's already legal? To what end? To encourage people to make it MORE legal?
Huh?
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I understand that the Pharmaceutical company stopped making drugs for MS patients and shifted production over to the execution drugs that Texas uses per Obama's request. :-)
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I understand that the Pharmaceutical company stopped making drugs for MS patients and shifted production over to the execution drugs that Texas uses per Obama's request. :-)
OH, SNAP. That's a double ^5. Imma come BACK to give you another.
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Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month.
What's the big deal of using drugs past their expiration date on a condemned inmate? Are they worried the expired drugs may be harmful to the inmate's health?
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What's the big deal of using drugs past their expiration date on a condemned inmate? Are they worried the expired drugs may be harmful to the inmate's health?
No kidding. Maybe they should test the expired drugs to see if they're still good after the expiration date. They could test them on
INMATES.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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I admit it, it is I.
I will provide them -- for FREE -- to DUmmies and any leftist who promises to use then while I watch
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I understand that the Pharmaceutical company stopped making drugs for MS patients and shifted production over to the execution drugs that Texas uses per Obama's request. :-)
FoTD! :rofl: :rofl: :hi5:
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Home Depot wants Texas to keep quiet about their source of d-CON.
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Just in time for tonight's execution of a true asshole. He slit the throat of a studio owner, but claimed he wasn't at fault because his accomplice was technically responsible for the "death blow." In recent weeks, he became pen pals with Gawker.
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I understand that the Pharmaceutical company stopped making drugs for MS patients and shifted production over to the execution drugs that Texas uses per Obama's request. :-)
:lmao: :rotf: :lol: :rofl: :lmao: :rotf: :lol: :rofl: :lmao: :rotf: :lol: :rofl:
H5!