Thursday, October 3, 2013

Death Drugs


Texas uses compounding pharmacy to replenish supply of execution drug


2.      Category: Prisons

3.      Level: State

4.      This article concerns: The state of Texas replenishing its execution drug supply by a compounding pharmacy because of expired drugs.

5.      This article concerns families/individuals: The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world and Texas is one of a couple states that still implements the death penalty. For us to lower this number instead of keeping more in prison, the death penalty is an option.

6.      I feel the use of the death penalty is a good resource to use for inmates given the death penalty and instead of living out a life sentence in a prison where the state or people in it are paying taxes to keep those men, who made their choice, alive. The state of Texas had an issue with the drugs they were using being expired so they needed Pentobarbital made to replenish the old supply. They didn’t have a current supplier so it was thought that the executions would have to be put on hold.

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