Posted on 05/15/2016 12:40:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Human rights campaigners warn action is needed to stop use of unlicensed drugs or other legally unsatisfactory methods
Human rights groups have welcomed news that pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is to block the sale of its drugs in the US to perform executions, but warned that legally dubious alternatives could take their place.
All companies licensed by the US government to manufacture drugs for state executions have now blocked their use in lethal injections.
Pfizer’s withdrawal follows a campaign targeting pharmaceutical companies and their shareholders.
The company said: “Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve. Consistent with these values, Pfizer strongly objects to the use of its products as lethal injections for capital punishment.”
In 2010, the Observer revealed that British companies had been secretly supplying the US with lethal injection drugs, triggering calls for an export ban. In 2011, investment firm Unipension sold its shares in a drug company because its pentobarbital was being used in US executions. A Danish doctors’ pension fund has also campaigned strongly on the issue. But according to Maya Foa, director of human rights group Reprieve, which campaigns against the death penalty, the pharmaceutical industry itself was also sympathetic to their views.
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I keep saying that states need to have the alternative of the firing squad as a means of execution.
1) Firing squads are very difficult to appeal as a means of execution.
2) The material used: rifles, bullets, and the wood and nails to build the rifle platform and chairs, are ubiquitous. And any LEO can be part of a firing squad.
3) Blood is usually not a problem, and if it might be, an absorbent vest can be put on the condemned to prevent obvious leakage.
4) The law and death penalties could be written so that the firing squad can be used as an option, an alternative, if some judge interferes with the preferred means of execution. This separates the means of execution from the condemned, so that even if the means is appealed, such as lethal injection, the execution can continue while the appeal is being heard.
Get a rope!
Meanwhile on June 9th in cali it will be legal to take a drug to kill yourself if you only have months to live.
If the judge instructed the prisoner to make a 100% blood donation to the Red Cross, I think that would be sufficient. No noise, little pain when the heart starts struggling and it’s done.
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More likely is that there would be very little money to be made for friends and family.
So use a generic.
Thank you, did not know that.
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