A federal judge stopped a Tulsa pharmacy from selling injectable drugs to Missouri for the execution of an inmate in two weeks. U.S. District Judge Terence Kern this week ordered The Apothecary Shoppe not to sell compounded pentobarbital to Missouri's Department of Corrections for the execution of Michael Taylor. The judicial order came hours after Taylor sued the pharmacy alleging "illegal delivery of this unidentified, unregulated, untested and unsafe" drug. Taylor claims the sale of the drug violates federal law and that the pharmacy is not registered as a drug manufacturer with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Taylor, 47, pleaded guilty to abducting, raping and stabbing to death a 15-year-old girl in 1989. "The use of pentobarbital produced by this pharmacy is substantially likely to cause Mr. Taylor severe, unnecessary, lingering, and ultimately inhumane pain for a number of reasons," the 34-page complaint states.
Execution by Lethal Injection Put on Hold
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Feb 17, 2014
A federal judge stopped a Tulsa pharmacy from selling injectable drugs to Missouri for the execution of an inmate in two weeks.
U.S. District Judge Terence Kern this week ordered The Apothecary Shoppe not to sell compounded pentobarbital to Missouri's Department of Corrections for the execution of Michael Taylor.
The judicial order came hours after Taylor sued the pharmacy alleging "illegal delivery of this unidentified, unregulated, untested and unsafe" drug.
Taylor claims the sale of the drug violates federal law and that the pharmacy is not registered as a drug manufacturer with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Taylor, 47, pleaded guilty to abducting, raping and stabbing to death a 15-year-old girl in 1989.
"The use of pentobarbital produced by this pharmacy is substantially likely to cause Mr. Taylor severe, unnecessary, lingering, and ultimately inhumane pain for a number of reasons," the 34-page complaint states.
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