For lethal injection drugs, Nebraska may try to skirt FDA

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By Joe Duggan

LINCOLN — The last time Nebraska imported a lethal injection drug, four years ago, state officials worked closely with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Nebraska’s prison director is banking on the same approach this time, recently obtained documents show, even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the hard-to-get lethal drug can’t be legally imported.

State officials have been vague about how they intend to get past the apparent FDA roadblock, saying only that they have followed proper channels and still expect to receive the foreign-made sodium thiopental.

But based on records recently provided to a committee of state senators, prison officials are trying to have the drug shipped, not as a medicine through the FDA, but as a controlled substance through the DEA.

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[Gothmog]

1. The governor of Nebraska really wants to kill some prisoners

[joshdawg]

2. Didn't Nebraska just outlaw the death penalty?

[Omaha Steve]

3. YES

But the legislature can't erase previous sentencings sitting on death row.

Ricketts and Attorney General Doug Peterson have said they believe the repeal does not legally apply to the state’s 10 death row inmates. In addition, death penalty supporters have launched a referendum petition drive in an effort to overturn the repeal law at the ballot box.

[Peace Patriot]

7. Thank you, Omaha Steve! I was confused, too.

The bloody-minded profiteers of state violence never rest, it seems.

[jtuck004]

4. No difference between the gov doing this and someone in an alley scoring heroin. Oh, wait,

one diff.

These people pretend what they are doing is legal. So the person scoring heroin likely has better morals.

[Jeff Murdoch]

6. wrong link, but maybe Nebraska should have the drugs shipped to KS leg.

[Spirochete]

8. The governor also demands

video footage of all the executions, and a large economy size bottle of Astroglide...