Ken Ritter reports for AP:
Fifteen states are siding with Nevada in a state Supreme Court fight against drug companies suing to prevent the use of their products to execute a condemned inmate.
In what a national death penalty expert on Tuesday called a setup for a showdown, documents filed with the Nevada Supreme Court argue that drug company Alvogen's effort to block the use of its sedative midazolam in the stalled execution of Scott Raymond Dozier in Nevada is part of a "guerrilla war against the death penalty."
"The families of these victims deserve justice," Arkansas' state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said in a statement Tuesday. Arkansas is leading the 15 states that include Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
"If Alvogen is allowed to succeed," the Monday friend of the court filing said, "there is a substantial risk that pharmaceutical companies -- prodded by anti-death penalty activists and (defense attorneys) -- will flood the courts with similar last-minute filings every time a state attempts to see justice done."
All the more reason to return to hanging as the method of execution. It is not inhumane. Done correctly it is instant and painless. The fact that walking up the steps of the gallows is frightening is not a reason against it. It’s what the sort of person who earns themselves the death penalty deserves. I believe that makes it a deterrent as well. I know it will never happen. But it should.
I second this.
I was involved in a mission to ensure that Sadddam Hussein obtain a medical exam prior to his execution.
He was perfectly fine when he was perfectly hanged.
Why isn't this damnum absque injuria?
The state has title to the drugs. It can use them.