Posted on 04/21/2017 6:39:23 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Almost two years after Texas tried to import an execution drug from overseas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled Thursday that the drug can’t be admitted into the United States.
In July 2015, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice tried to import 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that the state has previously used in executions, but the FDA seized the drugs at a Houston airport and has held them ever since. The federal agency has maintained that the import of the drug is illegal because it is not currently approved in the U.S.
In a statement, the FDA said it notified Texas and the Arizona Department of Corrections, which also tried to obtain the drug, that their attempted imports were refused because the drugs appeared to be unapproved and misbranded. The shipments must now be exported or destroyed, according to the agency.
TDCJ spokesman Jason Clark said after the ruling that the department is "exploring all options to remedy the unjustified seizure."
"It has taken almost two years for the Food and Drug Administration to reach a decision which we believe is flawed," Clark said. "TDCJ fully complied with the steps necessary to lawfully import the shipment."
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He is what makes no sense to me at all.
It takes this fancy cocktail of drugs to Execute someone. Many drug companies especially in other countries do not want to sell these drugs to prisons. There have been cases where the Execution goes wrong and the Prisoner does not die and drugs have to be re-administered and the attempt is botched leading to the claim of cruel and unusual punishment. Lethal injection was supposed to be the humane way to put someone “asleep” to coin a phrase.
MEANWHILE ...
We have 50,000 people a year die from Heroin/Fental overdoses in what is a true epidemic. The news show told me just how lethal Fental is and how few milli-grams are needed for an OD.
Could we not switch from the lethal drug cocktail and just use Fental for executions?
Exactly. Nitrogen asphyxiation is cheap, humane, and requires zero “controlled substances”. It’s such an obvious choice that one wonders why lethal injections have any appeal.
Ol’ Sparky is still in a museum in Huntsville TX. I’m sure it wouldn’t take much to get it fired up.
If I had to choose a way to be executed, I think I’d go for the guillotine. Quick, and they don’t need to find a vein.
We make plenty of bullets and rope domestically
Lead injections would work, and there’s lots of us here in TX that have the injectors.
Seems to me the FDA is getting ready to meet Trump’s ax.
Yeah, you wouldn’t want potentially dangerous drugs used in an execution. [eyeroll]
Sounds more like lib embeds at FDA using excuses to implement their own policy preferences, or else throwing their weight around to show who’s the boss.
Yeah, except there’s going to be a manufactured fight about whichever drug you choose. Haven’t you noticed?
Because our 8th amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments" the legal tactic has long been to make every capital punishment seem both "unusual" and "cruel".
Lethal injection seems to escape the charge of "cruel" so the legal battle intensifies to make it more difficult and therefore ever more "unusual".
My impression is the opponents of capital punishment don't even try to hide their true motives in using the legal system to its maximum effect.
That would be awesome.
Y’know, an ounce of lead administered to the back of the head at approx. mach one is a quick, painless death.
Go to the plant nursery and pick up a bottle of BLACK LEAF 40. Injected, it will put down a 700 lb horse in six seconds.
Or you could always burn some R-22 in a confined space.
Fine, no executions by lethal injection of drugs.
However, we here in Texas can surely find a way to execute murderers - say, by instantaneous airborne lead poisoning. It is even quicker than the series of injections, and the pain (if felt at all) is over very, very quickly.
Mississippi just passed a law legalizing poison gas, electrocution and firing squad if lethal injections can't be carried out.
“Yeah, you wouldn’t want potentially dangerous drugs used in an execution. [eyeroll]”
Yeah, EYEROLL.
This is just too much BS from the FDA. It has nothing to do with “approved” drugs, and everything to do with activist socialist-democrats embedded within the FDA.
If Texas actually goes along with this fed BS, then so he it.
There’s other perfectly fine methods of execution that do not require FDA approval.
Those would include: firing squad, gas chamber, hanging, guillotine, and the electric chair. All have a proven 100% mortality rate, while being cost effective. And none of them require FDA approval.
Dry nitrogen gas is dirt cheap, readily available, doesn’t expire, is non-toxic, and is 100% lethal.
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