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| KY Needs Sedative For Lethal Injections |
| By courier-journal.com |
| Published: 01/21/2011 |
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Amid a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug, documents show that two pharmaceutical companies declined to sell Kentucky a supply of the sedative. The state e-mails obtained under a freedom of information request show that one firm, KRS Global Biotechnology of Boca Raton, Fla., explained its refusal by saying there was no doctor involved in the purchase, even though Kentucky law bars physicians from being involved in administering executions. No reason was given in e-mails between state officials and pharmacists for a canceled order from the other company, Spectrum Chemical and Laboratory Products of Gardena, Calif. A Spectrum official said the ordered was scrapped when it sold that part of its business Read More. |
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