Dispensary Corner 17 Feb 17
February 17, 2017
ONLY in America; a shortage of drugs used for executions carried out by lethal injection has led to a “bring your own” plan in Arizona.
A newly issued death row
protocol states that lawyers for
condemned inmates are invited to
provide the drugs themselves.
“The inmate’s counsel...
may provide the department
with pentobarbital or sodium
pentothal if they can obtain
it from a certified or licensed
pharmacist, pharmacy, compound
pharmacy, manufacturer or
supplier,” the protocol reads.
Lundbeck banned the use of
pentobarbitol in executions in
2011, while an attempt by Arizona
to illegally import sodium
pentothal from India in 2015 was
blocked by customs officials in
Phoenix, reports The Guardian.
And probably in the same
category, authorities on the US/
Mexico border have dismantled
a massive catapult which they
believe was used to fling packages
of drugs to smugglers.
The contraption was discovered
by officers who saw some people
running away from a border fence
as they approached.
Searching the area revealed two
large bundles of marijuana which
had been hurled across from
Mexico using the giant springloaded
device.
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