Three Texas death row inmates are alleging in a lawsuit that the state is planning to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out executions in violation of state law.
since Texas became the first state to use this execution method in 1982. Some problems have included difficulty finding usable veins, needles becoming disengaged or issues with the drugs.to obtain pentobarbital, which it uses for executions, after traditional drugmakers refused to sell their products to prison agencies in the U.S.
But in a 15-page declaration submitted in support of the death row inmates’ lawsuit, Michaela Almgren, a pharmacology professor at the University of South Carolina, said she concluded after reviewing state records that "all the pentobarbital in TDCJ’s possession is expired, as it is far beyond" the specified beyond use date.
She found that some vials of pentobarbital were more than 630 days old while others were more than 1,300 days old, well over their beyond use date limit of 24 hours when stored at room temperature. If such compounded drugs are frozen, their beyond use date limit is 45 days. But Almgren called the state’s testing "completely unscientific and incorrect, and therefore the results are invalid."
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