institutions are ignoring the law in order to get the execution drugs they need to carry out the death penalty

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

ACLU: Nebraska Illegally Obtaining and Storing Execution Drugs

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/aclu-nebraska-execution-drugs-fentanyl/2018/03/12/id/848168/

The state of Nebraska has been breaking federal law to obtain and store an experimental drug cocktail used in lethal injections, the American Civil Liberties Union alleges in a complaint filed Monday.

The ACLU of Nebraska, along with the DEA, has filed a complaint which claims that Nebraska unlawfully obtained fentanyl, a Schedule II controlled substance, in order to execute prisoners Jose Sandoval and Carey Moore, arguing that the DEA ought to seize the drugs before they are used.

 “As the complaint shows, a person or entity, including government agencies, needs a DEA registration to import a controlled substance,” wrote Danielle Conrad, ACLU of Nebraska executive director, on Monday. “Federal law also requires those that handle a controlled substance to have a DEA registration particular to their authorized usage. These laws apply to the Nebraska Department of Corrections and to the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP), where the state carries out executions. But both institutions are ignoring the law in order to get the execution drugs they need to carry out the death penalty.”
 The ACLU notes that the NSP applied to register as a DEA importer in multiple years with a false pharmacy license number, one registered to a pharmacy that the Department of Corrections operates four miles away despite the license being specific to the pharmacy’s address and the people listed in the application.

“Put simply, the state broke the federal law by applying for an import registration for the prison based on the false claim that the prison possessed a state pharmacy license it did not,” Conrad continued. “That licensed was assigned to the state pharmacy, and Nebraska law forbids it from being assigned, borrowed, or used by some other person or entity. In fact, in 2011, the pharmacy itself used this very same license number to apply legally for its own DEA import registration. When the NSP did the same, it was illegal.”

Jose Sandoval  After he was sent to death row, Sandoval pleaded guilty to two additional murders in the months leading up to the bank slayings  http://www.omaha.com/townnews/criminal_law/jose-sandoval-argues-he-was-illegally-sentenced-to-death-when/article_61c613a0-db7d-11e7-b3c9-ff2e1dad2bfd.html

Carey Moore Moore shot and killed Omaha cab drivers Reuel Van Ness and Maynard Helgeland in the summer of 1979.  http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/nebraska-notifies-death-row-inmate-carey-dean-moore-of-drugs/article_1e5f1c5c-fd5a-11e7-9b15-773ca0854563.html

The notice provided Friday to Moore said the state intends to use a series of four drugs — in order: diazepam, fentanyl citrate, cisatracurium besylate and potassium chloride — to carry out the execution.

Doesn’t it just give you the “warm fuzzies” to know that the ACLU is defending the rights of murders to not be executed by  FDA APPROVED drugs.

The DEA has plainly stated that the use of a opiate and a benzo can be FATAL… throw in a paralytic agent (stop breathing) and Pot Cl to stop the heart from beating.. should work !    Where are they in defending the rights of chronic pain pts to have access to medically necessary medications ?  I forgot, the 8th Amendment – cruel and unusual punishing – only applies to PRISONERS …

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