Entries tagged with “Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA”

Executions

Feb 16, 2022

Deadline to Seek Execution of Zane Floyd Before Lethal-Injection Drugs Expire Passes in Nevada

Nevada pros­e­cu­tors have failed to meet a dead­line to obtain a death war­rant to exe­cute Zane Floyd before its sup­ply of a key lethal-injec­tion drug expires, indef­i­nite­ly extend­ing the near 16-year pause between exe­cu­tions in the…

Executions

Nov 09, 2021

Nevada Prosecutors Ask Federal Judge to Expedite Decision on Execution Protocol, Citing Looming Expiration Date of Questionably Obtained Drugs

Nevada pros­e­cu­tors have asked a fed­er­al judge to expe­dite a deci­sion on the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the state’s exe­cu­tion process, say­ing accel­er­at­ed review is nec­es­sary if the state is to exe­cute Zane Floyd before its sup­ply of a ques­tion­ably obtained lethal-injec­tion drug expires on February 28,…

Executions

Jun 29, 2021

Drug Manufacturer Says Nevada ​‘Surreptitiously’ Obtained Drug for Execution in Violation of State and Federal Law

For the sec­ond time in three years, the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) and the state of Nevada are fac­ing legal action from a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal man­u­fac­tur­er after obtain­ing drugs for an exe­cu­tion in vio­la­tion of the drug manufacturer’s…

Issues

Jul 28, 2020

Nebraska Pharmacy May Have Violated Drug Distribution Policies, State Refused Drug Give-Back Demands, Records Show

Nebraska may have exe­cut­ed Carey Dean Moore in August 2018 using drugs sup­plied by a phar­ma­cy in vio­la­tion of phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers’ dis­tri­b­u­tion poli­cies, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) records…

Executions

Apr 07, 2020

News Brief — Drugmakers Drop Lawsuit as Nevada Returns Unused Execution Drugs

NEWS (4/​7/​20) — Nevada: A tri­al-court judge in Las Vegas has dis­missed a law­suit filed by drug­mak­ers against the Nevada prison sys­tem after state offi­cials agreed to return unused drugs it had obtained under false pre­tens­es in a failed attempt to exe­cute Scott Dozier in 2018. Pharmaceutical com­pa­nies Alvogen, Inc., Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA, and Sandoz Inc. reached a set­tle­ment with the state in which Nevada agreed to give back the drugs, which have expired,…

Executions

Oct 01, 2018

Finding ​“Bad Faith,” Judge Grants Injunction Preventing Nevada From Using Drug in Execution

Finding that the Nevada Department of Corrections act­ed in ​“bad faith” to obtain the drug mida­zo­lam through ​“sub­terfuge,” a Las Vegas tri­al court has issued a pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tion bar­ring the state from using its sup­ply of that drug in car­ry­ing out any exe­cu­tion. The 43-page rul­ing issued by Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez (pic­tured) on September 28, 2018 effec­tive­ly freezes efforts by Nevada pros­e­cu­tors to exe­cute Scott Dozier, who has waived his…

Executions

Aug 09, 2018

Drugmaker Sues Nebraska, as 15 Death-Penalty States Oppose Ruling Blocking Use of Drugs in Nevada

Less than a month after a Nevada court halt­ed the exe­cu­tion of Scott Dozier in response to a law­suit filed by gener­ic-drug man­u­fac­tur­er Alvogen, anoth­er drug com­pa­ny has sued Nebraska, seek­ing to block the use of its med­i­cines in an upcoming…