"Oklahoma Secures Non-Compounded Execution Drugs," is the report compiled by Associated Press & KGOU-FM. The document referenced is available at the link.
Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma said in a letter to attorneys for two death row inmates that no compounded drugs would be used in their executions.
In a letter from Assistant Attorney General John Hadden on Friday the state informed lawyers for Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner that the state had secured non-compounded vercuronium bromide, the second of the three drugs it intends to use in the inmates' executions.
"The state previously had acquired manufactured versions of the two other drugs used in the lethal injection process (midazolam and potassium chloride)," AG Spokesman Aaron Cooper said in an email. "This means all three drugs to be used in the executions of Locket and Warner will be from manufactured sources. There will be no compounded drugs used in their executions."
The Guardian reports, "Oklahoma says it has obtained secret supply of execution drugs," by Katie Fretland in Tulsa.
Oklahoma officials on Friday said the state had obtained manufactured pharmaceuticals from a secret supplier for use in the executions of two men later this month, avoiding concerns over the use of compounded drugs but leaving unanswered questions about how it obtained them.
In a letter to defence lawyers, an assistant attorney general, John Hadden, said the state “has recently acquired a manufactured source of vecuronium bromide. That means there will be no compounded drugs used in the executions of your clients. This will resolve the concerns you and your clients have expressed regarding compounded drugs.”
Earlier coverage from Oklahoma begins at the link.
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