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HOUSTON (AP)– A group of doctor is asking death penalty states for medications used both for deadly injections and to assist coronavirus clients who are on ventilators.
However a medical professional who’s behind the request and a capital punishment specialist states secrecy surrounding executions could hinder those efforts due to the fact that they don’t know what drugs states have.
The letter was sent this month to corrections departments asking states with the death penalty to release drug stockpiles to healthcare facilities.
Many medications utilized to sedate and debilitate people put on ventilators and to treat their discomfort are the exact same drugs that specifies usage to put prisoners to death.
