Posted on 04/13/2020 8:40:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Death penalty states have been asked to hand over their stockpiles of drugs used in lethal injections to instead help save the lives of hundreds of patients admitted to intensive care units after contracting the coronavirus.
Seven medical practitioners and experts addressed a letter to state correctional facility directors urging them to turn over their supplies of sedatives and paralytics to hospitals where they can be used for intubation and mechanical ventilation in critically ill COVID-19 patients.
“Health care workers across the United States are facing unprecedented shortages of vital resources needed to battle COVID-19,” the letter said. Scarce resources include not only ventilators and masks, but also key medicines such as sedatives and paralytics needed for intubation and mechanical ventilation. […]
The letter was sent out to the corrections departments in all states where capital punishment is legal, The Guardian reported. Not all states that allow capital punishment disclose if they stockpile medication for lethal injections. At least 19 states have execution procedures that involve sedatives and paralytics. …
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Puhlease. As if sedatives are in short supply? If so, just send someone to any corner of the inner city to purchase Fentanyl provided by our trading partner, Communist China.
So many hospitals are deferring elective surgeries that the demand for these drugs has to be quite reduced nationwide.
This has to be a ploy to deprive death penalty states of their supply. In any case, how few executions are there yearly? Not enough to impact COVID patient care.
Agree!!
I call BS, on this.
More statist nonsense.
Shame on Wyoming for replying as if it have credibility. The only sane reply besides ignoring these dangerous crackpots is a firm “Get bent!”
Who are the signatories of this letter? My bet is all of them have ties to hate Trump groups, the Clinton’s, Soros funded organizations or leftist political groups.
“associate professor . .”
Not even a real professor. Occasionally stays at Holiday Inn.
What could go wrong?
When making the Doctor a woman was a good joke and not bad woke.
Do it. Ropes are cheap. Bullets are cheap. Executions need not be complicated or expensive.
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