Pfizer Blocks the Use of Its Drugs in Executions

[Disir]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

 

[DarkFury]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

Not even close. Ol Sparky still works. Hanging still works. And some states may revert to shooting them. We had executions LONG before we had drugs.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Is that like not baking a cake

 

[JakeStarkey]

Hanging, if the weight and drop are correctly determined and the knot correctly placed and cinched, is quick and painless.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Perhaps an investigation into drug companies cartel like prices might convince them otherwise

 

[DarkFury]

Is that like not baking a cake

The strange part is liberals took the most humane way of killing another person off the table. So now those families will now get their family member back extra crispy OR with holes in them.
And they expect applause for that?

 

[chikenwing]

Good for them

 

[JakeStarkey]

A bullet behind the right ear is painless.

 

[BULLDOG]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

It's not that simple. Compounding pharmacies don't register with the FDA. They only have to be approved by their state, and they can produce any drug you might want. Texas has gone to compounding for their executions, and the name of the company isn't even released. No real way to tell if the drugs are of the right strength or quality. As long as they want to murder someone, they will find a way to do it. I don't have a problem with executions. Some people deserve a slow painful death. The only problem is we have killed so many innocent people. Until we find a way to determine if the executed person is truly guilty, and there is no chance that their innocence will be found later, it's cheaper to just lock them up forever.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Much cheaper and far more moral.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Get it right before you cinch it tight.

 

[Disir]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

It's not that simple. Compounding pharmacies don't register with the FDA. They only have to be approved by their state, and they can produce any drug you might want. Texas has gone to compounding for their executions, and the name of the company isn't even released. No real way to tell if the drugs are of the right strength or quality. As long as they want to murder someone, they will find a way to do it. I don't have a problem with executions. Some people deserve a slow painful death. The only problem is we have killed so many innocent people. Until we find a way to determine if the executed person is truly guilty, and there is no chance that their innocence will be found later, it's cheaper to just lock them up forever.

I didn’t have a problem with the death penalty up until the WM3 case. Then I had a problem. Arkansas response from the beginning till they were released was reprehensible.

About ten years after the WM3 case began a book was written by Scott Turrow called Ultimate Punishment. Turrow was on the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment. He does a back and forth of his time and dealing with the issues of people on the one hand being railroaded and people that are clearly monsters. There are hideous cases where I think put that mofo down and Illinois is still dealing with the repercussions of John Burge. Right now, there are 156 people nationwide that have been exonerated since 1977 and 20 via DNA.

And as much as Texas is all about the death penalty, they also appear to be leading the fight in getting rid of junk science in forensics. That’s huge. It’s Texas that went after bite marks and fire. It’s also very difficult because the criminal justice system is by and large left to the states.

After Oklahoma’s botched executions which is asking good people to kill and shit like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/science/steroid-compounding-medication-deaths-arrest.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Meningitis&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection

we are looking at a culmination rather than a singular event.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Yet they dont mind pricing life saving drugs so far out of reach that people die because they cant afford them.

 

[BULLDOG]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

It's not that simple. Compounding pharmacies don't register with the FDA. They only have to be approved by their state, and they can produce any drug you might want. Texas has gone to compounding for their executions, and the name of the company isn't even released. No real way to tell if the drugs are of the right strength or quality. As long as they want to murder someone, they will find a way to do it. I don't have a problem with executions. Some people deserve a slow painful death. The only problem is we have killed so many innocent people. Until we find a way to determine if the executed person is truly guilty, and there is no chance that their innocence will be found later, it's cheaper to just lock them up forever.

I didn’t have a problem with the death penalty up until the WM3 case. Then I had a problem. Arkansas response from the beginning till they were released was reprehensible.

About ten years after the WM3 case began a book was written by Scott Turrow called Ultimate Punishment. Turrow was on the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment. He does a back and forth of his time and dealing with the issues of people on the one hand being railroaded and people that are clearly monsters. There are hideous cases where I think put that mofo down and Illinois is still dealing with the repercussions of John Burge. Right now, there are 156 people nationwide that have been exonerated since 1977 and 20 via DNA.

And as much as Texas is all about the death penalty, they also appear to be leading the fight in getting rid of junk science in forensics. That’s huge. It’s Texas that went after bite marks and fire. It’s also very difficult because the criminal justice system is by and large left to the states.

After Oklahoma’s botched executions which is asking good people to kill and shit like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/science/steroid-compounding-medication-deaths-arrest.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Meningitis&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection

we are looking at a culmination rather than a singular event.

Every step toward logic and reason is a good thing, but Texas still kills more people than anyone. I don't believe they are always justified in doing that.

 

[Disir]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

It's not that simple. Compounding pharmacies don't register with the FDA. They only have to be approved by their state, and they can produce any drug you might want. Texas has gone to compounding for their executions, and the name of the company isn't even released. No real way to tell if the drugs are of the right strength or quality. As long as they want to murder someone, they will find a way to do it. I don't have a problem with executions. Some people deserve a slow painful death. The only problem is we have killed so many innocent people. Until we find a way to determine if the executed person is truly guilty, and there is no chance that their innocence will be found later, it's cheaper to just lock them up forever.

I didn’t have a problem with the death penalty up until the WM3 case. Then I had a problem. Arkansas response from the beginning till they were released was reprehensible.

About ten years after the WM3 case began a book was written by Scott Turrow called Ultimate Punishment. Turrow was on the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment. He does a back and forth of his time and dealing with the issues of people on the one hand being railroaded and people that are clearly monsters. There are hideous cases where I think put that mofo down and Illinois is still dealing with the repercussions of John Burge. Right now, there are 156 people nationwide that have been exonerated since 1977 and 20 via DNA.

And as much as Texas is all about the death penalty, they also appear to be leading the fight in getting rid of junk science in forensics. That’s huge. It’s Texas that went after bite marks and fire. It’s also very difficult because the criminal justice system is by and large left to the states.

After Oklahoma’s botched executions which is asking good people to kill and shit like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/science/steroid-compounding-medication-deaths-arrest.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Meningitis&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection

we are looking at a culmination rather than a singular event.

Every step toward logic and reason is a good thing, but Texas still kills more people than anyone. I don't believe they are always justified in doing that.

I can think of 3 off the top of my head that sure as hell shouldn't have happened: Wilmington, DeLuna and Graham.

 

[BULLDOG]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

It's not that simple. Compounding pharmacies don't register with the FDA. They only have to be approved by their state, and they can produce any drug you might want. Texas has gone to compounding for their executions, and the name of the company isn't even released. No real way to tell if the drugs are of the right strength or quality. As long as they want to murder someone, they will find a way to do it. I don't have a problem with executions. Some people deserve a slow painful death. The only problem is we have killed so many innocent people. Until we find a way to determine if the executed person is truly guilty, and there is no chance that their innocence will be found later, it's cheaper to just lock them up forever.

I didn’t have a problem with the death penalty up until the WM3 case. Then I had a problem. Arkansas response from the beginning till they were released was reprehensible.

About ten years after the WM3 case began a book was written by Scott Turrow called Ultimate Punishment. Turrow was on the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment. He does a back and forth of his time and dealing with the issues of people on the one hand being railroaded and people that are clearly monsters. There are hideous cases where I think put that mofo down and Illinois is still dealing with the repercussions of John Burge. Right now, there are 156 people nationwide that have been exonerated since 1977 and 20 via DNA.

And as much as Texas is all about the death penalty, they also appear to be leading the fight in getting rid of junk science in forensics. That’s huge. It’s Texas that went after bite marks and fire. It’s also very difficult because the criminal justice system is by and large left to the states.

After Oklahoma’s botched executions which is asking good people to kill and shit like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/science/steroid-compounding-medication-deaths-arrest.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Meningitis&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection

we are looking at a culmination rather than a singular event.

Every step toward logic and reason is a good thing, but Texas still kills more people than anyone. I don't believe they are always justified in doing that.

I can think of 3 off the top of my head that sure as hell shouldn't have happened: Wilmington, DeLuna and Graham.

People are executed in Texas for Political reasons. It's more about politicians claiming to be tough on crime than it is about guilt or innocence.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.

More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.

“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”

The obstacles to lethal injection have grown in the last five years as manufacturers, seeking to avoid association with executions, have barred the sale of their products to corrections agencies. Experiments with new drugs, a series of botched executions and covert efforts to obtain lethal chemicals have mired many states in court challenges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html

Bam! Just like that. It's almost over,.

It's not that simple. Compounding pharmacies don't register with the FDA. They only have to be approved by their state, and they can produce any drug you might want. Texas has gone to compounding for their executions, and the name of the company isn't even released. No real way to tell if the drugs are of the right strength or quality. As long as they want to murder someone, they will find a way to do it. I don't have a problem with executions. Some people deserve a slow painful death. The only problem is we have killed so many innocent people. Until we find a way to determine if the executed person is truly guilty, and there is no chance that their innocence will be found later, it's cheaper to just lock them up forever.

I didn’t have a problem with the death penalty up until the WM3 case. Then I had a problem. Arkansas response from the beginning till they were released was reprehensible.

About ten years after the WM3 case began a book was written by Scott Turrow called Ultimate Punishment. Turrow was on the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment. He does a back and forth of his time and dealing with the issues of people on the one hand being railroaded and people that are clearly monsters. There are hideous cases where I think put that mofo down and Illinois is still dealing with the repercussions of John Burge. Right now, there are 156 people nationwide that have been exonerated since 1977 and 20 via DNA.

And as much as Texas is all about the death penalty, they also appear to be leading the fight in getting rid of junk science in forensics. That’s huge. It’s Texas that went after bite marks and fire. It’s also very difficult because the criminal justice system is by and large left to the states.

After Oklahoma’s botched executions which is asking good people to kill and shit like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/science/steroid-compounding-medication-deaths-arrest.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Meningitis&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection

we are looking at a culmination rather than a singular event.

Every step toward logic and reason is a good thing, but Texas still kills more people than anyone. I don't believe they are always justified in doing that.

I can think of 3 off the top of my head that sure as hell shouldn't have happened: Wilmington, DeLuna and Graham.

People are executed in Texas for Political reasons. It's more about politicians claiming to be tough on crime than it is about guilt or innocence.

They are executed for religious reasons as well. The judge from Corsicana made up his mind independent of circumstances that two accused were satanic killers. Judge was a fucking idiot and made his rulings accordingly.