India-based company doesn't want drug used for executions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

India-based company doesn't want drug used for executions
Claudia Lauer, Associated Press
Updated 2:07 pm, Tuesday, September 22, 2015

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An India-based company that appears to have made one of the execution drugs Arkansas purchased says it doesn't want its product used in the state's plans to execute eight inmates.

Sun Pharma is the third pharmaceutical company to make such a statement. A spokesman for Sun Pharma says the company prohibits its customers from selling to prisons or other groups that may misuse them for lethal purposes.

The two other manufacturers— Hikma and Hospira — have also said they don't want their products used for executions.

The Associated Press approached the drugmakers after redacted photographs obtained through an open-records request appeared to show their drugs in Arkansas' execution supply.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/India-based-company-doesn-t-want-drug-used-for-6522151.php

[Binkie The Clown]

1. If prisons insist on doing executions,

why not build a garage in back of the prison and stock it with an old Chevy pickup truck and a length of garden hose.

Or provide un-ventilated charcoal grills in the condemned prisoner's cell so he can cook his own last meal and then fall asleep from the carbon monoxide. From what I understand, carbon monoxide is painless and very effective. Fall asleep, then never wake up. They don't need drugs. They need a bag of briquettes and a match.

[7wo7rees]

2. Sounds a little more humane, I guess.nt

[jmowreader]

3. You can get carbon monoxide in tanks

It's a chemical with a LOT of uses in industry. Give the convict a couple of downers, put an oxygen mask hooked to a cylinder of CO over his face, and turn on the gas. He'll never know what hit him.

Alternately, they could give the guy a can of iced tea and a bag of Skittles...