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Death Row Drug Dilemma

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a post at Nature, written by Emma Marris. It's subtitled, "Lack of anaesthetic used in lethal injection exposes ethics gaps in the supply chain." The situation demonstrates that although pharmaceutical supply chains are global, the morals and mores of drug use are decidedly local. Will US states be forced to stop executing their death-row inmates by a drug embargo? And who decides which drugs are used to inject prisoners condemned to die? Nature explores an ethical dilemma. And: Did the FDA 'help' states obtain sodium thiopental? Not according to a spokesperson ? but they didn't hinder the states either. They did not interfere with the importation of the drug from the United Kingdom, despite knowing where the drug was headed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).