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| Virginia execution drug price jumps 63-fold |
| By herald-review.com- Alanna Durkin Richer |
| Published: 12/12/2016 |
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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia prison officials have paid a secret compounding pharmacy $66,000 to obtain lethal injection drugs for its next two executions — 63 times last year's going price for the state's three-drug lethal injection package. Like other states, Virginia has struggled to obtain these chemicals as pharmaceutical companies block their sale for executions to avoid being publicly accused of violating medical ethics. But under a new law, the state can have the drugs made at a compounding pharmacy and shield its identity from the public. Virginia's lethal injection protocol calls for the use of a sedative — pentobarbital or midazolam — followed by rocuronium bromide to halt breathing, and potassium chloride to stop the heart. Read More. |
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