Friday, August 19, 2011

Shortage of injectable pentobarbital for execution by lethal injection - Update 2

Reuters reports that yesterday the state of Virginia executed Jerry Terrell Jackson using pentobarbital. A spokesman for H. Lundbeck A/S of Denmark, Matt Flesch, in an interview with the BBC, said:
"We're in the business to improve people's lives, so the use of pentobarbital to end people's lives contradicts everything that we're in business to do."
Since the company has previously stated that it has never sold directly to prisons, the drug must have been diverted before the company reorganized their distribution system to prevent its use for lethal injection. Please read my prior posts for more information.

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