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execution lawsuit: Lethal injection drug causes 'inhuman pain'
See also  An Oklahoma pharmacy won’t supply a drug needed for an
execution that is scheduled next week for an inmate on death row
in Missouri. The drug will cause “inhuman pain” claims a lawsuit
filed against the Oklahoma pharmacy by the inmate. As a part of
the settlement of this lawsuit, the pharmacy has to agree not to
provide the drug to that is needed to execute the death row
prisoner, according to CBS News on Feb. 18.  Death row inmate
Michael Taylor had his lawyer’s file this lawsuit against the
compounding pharmacy, the Apothecary Shoppe. He is now asking
that the judge dismiss the case because the pharmacy agrees not
to supply the prison system with the drug to be used in his
lethal injection death sentence.  The pharmacy also stated that
it had not previously provided any drug to the Missouri
Department of Corrections for Taylor’s execution. This didn’t
change things for Ta