Entries tagged with “West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Corp.”
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New Voices
,Apr 13, 2020
Medical Professionals Ask Death-Penalty States to Turn Over Execution Drugs Needed for Coronavirus Treatment
As hospitals throughout the country face shortages of crucial medications needed to treat patients with COVID-19, a group of leading anesthesiologists, pharmacists and medical academics is asking corrections officials in death-penalty states to turn over stockpiles of their execution drugs to hospitals so they can be used for therapeutic purposes. In an open letter from nine prominent public health experts released April 10, 2020, the medical experts explain that the sedatives and paralytics…
Executions
Jul 24, 2018
Arkansas Prisons Suspend Search for Execution Drugs, Ask For Even Broader Drug Secrecy Law
Unable to legitimately purchase lethal-injection drugs or carry out executions without revealing who manufactured its drugs, Arkansas has suspended efforts to obtain a new supply of execution drugs until state law is amended to keep secret the identity of the drug manufacturers. The Arkansas Department of Corrections confirmed on July 17, 2018 that it had halted its search for execution drugs earlier this year following a November 2017 Arkansas Supreme Court decision requiring the state to…
Executions
Nov 03, 2017
Arkansas Supreme Court Orders Partial Disclosure of Information on State’s Lethal-Injection Drugs
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Freedom of Information Act requires the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) to release copies of the pharmaceutical drug and packaging labels for the supply of the drug midazolam that it intends to use in upcoming executions, but that the secrecy provisions of the state’s Methods of Execution Act permit the department to redact the batch and lot numbers that appear on the labels. The high court’s November 2 decision reverses part of an…