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Companies Refuse to Sell Lethal Injection Drug to Kentucky

Jan. 18, 2011 7:30pm Meredith Jessup

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Amid a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug, documents obtained under a freedom of information request show two pharmaceutical companies declined to sell Kentucky a supply of the sedative.

The state e-mails obtained by The Associated Press show one firm, KRS Global Biotechnology of Boca Raton, Fla., explained it’s refusal by saying there was no doctor involved in the purchase of sodium thiopental, even though Kentucky law bars physicians from being involved in administering executions.

No reason was given in the e-mail traffic between state officials and pharmacists for a canceled order from the other company, Spectrum Chemical and Laboratory Products of Gardenia, Calif. A Spectrum official told the AP the ordered was scrapped when it sold that part of its business last year.

At least 7 other states that use sodium thiopental for lethal injections have had trouble in recent months finding enough of the drug, whose main U.S. manufacturer has cited supply problems. The shortage has not delayed any executions in Kentucky because they have been on hold since a judge’s order in September over an unrelated issue.

The Kentucky e-mails are the first public record of companies declining to sell the drug to states for executions.

They show a massive search for any stock of unexpired sodium thiopental, with Kentucky prison officials contacting more than two dozen states, more than a half-dozen chemical companies and even the federal Bureau of Prisons. While Kentucky in June gave Ohio 3 of the 6 grams needed to carry out an execution there, prison officials found no state willing to share their limited supply of the drug with Kentucky.

“I am beginning to think drug companies and suppliers are not real happy to have to supply us for this use,” Phil Parker, warden of the Kentucky State Penitentiary that houses the state’s death chamber, wrote in a July e-mail

Kentucky started searching for sodium thiopental in January 2010, about six weeks after the state Attorney General’s office asked the governor to set execution dates in three cases.

By June, it had focused on Spectrum Chemical as the only company with the drug in stock. The state placed an order with Spectrum on June 14 order for 50 grams of the fast-acting sedative, enough to conduct eight executions. But in July, Spectrum called off the deal.

State officials, in e-mails, said the cancellation came after Spectrum found out the customer was the Kentucky Department of Corrections, not a hospital or clinic, as listed on the department’s federal license allowing the drug purchase.

A pharmacist at Fredonia Pharmacy Corner, an outlet 15 miles from the prison that the state used to buy other drugs, offered to order the sodium thiopental for Kentucky as long as he could tack on a 15 percent markup. Spectrum rejected the order, saying they don’t sell to pharmacies.

The state penitentiary’s Parker speculated in an e-mail that Spectrum figured out what the drug would be used for and the link between the pharmacy and the prison.

“Bottom line is, they are not going to sell to anyone or any entity associated with us,” Parker wrote on July 19 to Kentucky Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson.

Brad Ashby, a former pharmacist at Fredonia Pharmacy Corner, told Parker in an e-mail that Spectrum initially had no issues with selling the drug to him.

“I made it clear to Spectrum on Friday that we were a pharmacy and they did not say that they couldn’t sell to us,” Ashby wrote on July 19. “In fact, ‘pharmacy’ is a choice on their application.”

Ashby declined to comment last week for this story.

Julie Berryman, president of Spectrum’s West Coast division and general counsel, told the AP the company takes no stand on the drug being used for executions. Berryman said the contract with the Kentucky prisons was part of the company whose business was sold to another firm last year and that sale meant the order had to be canceled.

“We’re a business,” Berryman told The Associated Press. “We would never decline a sale for political reasons.”

Kentucky then negotiated a $16,000 order with KRS-GBT in September to cover enough of the drug for six executions, but the deal fell through because the company insisted that a doctor take part in the acquisition, said Jennifer Brislin, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Justice Cabinet.

Having a doctor participate in buying the drug could have violated state law, which forbids physicians from having a role in an execution.

“The Department of Corrections couldn’t comply with that request,” Brislin said.

KRS-GBT did not return messages from the AP seeking comment.

The two companies’ refusal to sell sodium thiopental to Kentucky set off a scramble by the Department of Corrections to get some of the dwindling national supply of the drug before the state’s remaining stock went bad in October.

As the search wore on, Parker became less and less optimistic that Kentucky would be able to find the drug, calling Spectrum “our last, best hope” and that he was “at wits end” because no one could say when the chemical would be produced again.

To distance the purchaser of the drugs from the state, Parker suggested hiring a pharmacist not previously associated with the state to call and order the drug. Prison officials also looked into having the Kentucky State Reformatory, which serves as the prison system’s medical center, order the chemicals.

Attempts by the pharmacist at the Kentucky State Reformatory to purchase the drug were unsuccessful and the plan to hire a pharmacist on contract never came to fruition.

The primary producer of sodium thiopental, Hospira, Inc., of Lake Forest, Ill., has blamed a national shortage on a lack of raw materials. Hospira and the Food and Drug Administration have said the product should be available early this year.

Sodium thiopental has been used as an anesthetic in surgery, but many hospitals have switched to propofol to render patients unconscious, leaving very few medical uses for sodium thiopental.

Officials with Hospira have written to at least two states — Ohio and Mississippi — saying the drug is produced with medical uses, not executions, in mind.

“As such, we do not support the use of any of our products in capital punishment procedures,” Dr. Kees Gioenhout, vice president of clinical research and development, wrote to Ohio prison officials in March.

While Kentucky law prohibits doctors from taking an active role in executions, there’s no similar ban on pharmacists. The American Pharmacist Association, based in Washington, D.C., is opposed to any law or regulation mandating or prohibiting pharmacists from taking part in the lethal injection process, said association spokeswoman Michelle Fritts.

Kentucky returned to the Fredonia pharmacy to obtain another lethal injection ingredient, potassium chloride. The state got a third part of the lethal brew, pancuronium bromide, from Henry Schein, a Melville, N.Y., company that sells pharmaceuticals and medical products.

State records obtained by the AP show Kentucky has 500 mg of pancuronium bromide, which causes paralysis, that expires in November and another 150 mg that expires in March 2012.

Kentucky also has 720 milliequivalents of potassium chloride, which causes cardiac arrest, that expires in February and another 2,250 that expires in February 2012.

Kentucky’s stock of 6 grams of sodium thiopental expired before the state could carry out an execution. A Sept. 16 date for condemned inmate Gregory L. Wilson, convicted in 1988 of kidnapping, raping and killing a woman in northern Kentucky, passed when a judge halted all executions in the state over concerns about how Kentucky evaluated an inmate’s mental health before execution.

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VermontPatriot
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:53pm
Use a bullet or use some rope.

Screw big pharma!

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AmericanWomanFirst
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:47pm
Amazin how the pharma comps. don’t have a problem with coming up with mass doses of flu vaccine at the drop of a dime and then play up to the hysteria of mandatory vaccinations all for the good of people, whether you want it or not. But WE will be mandated, but to those who have been tried, convicted of unimaginable horrible crimes sit on death row at the mercy of what? A pharmacist who is willing to sell his drug to the veternarian (same drug) to put down an animal verses what? Another animal sitting in cell waiting for the drug? Makes no sense.

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GrandpaOf4
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:43pm
The death penalty may not be all that effective as a crime deterrent but it does a bang-up job keeping the recidivism rate low.

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- xoke
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:45pm
  Lol, very true very true. ;)
  
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xoke
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:38pm
Just use salt, or trans fats, or that drink 4 Loco! It’s obvious that those things kill people! Right Michelle?

All that said, I’m not a huge fan of the death penalty…I know…kinda rare for a “conservative right wing hate monger.” I’m for hard labor & hard time, key word HARD. Seriously, I want prisoners turning big rocks into little rocks…for the rest of their lives. Certainly we can use the labor of prisoners for the greater benefit of society. And no, I’m not kidding at all. Give a guy 5 years in a box so he can sit around reading and watching TV…or work him 16 hours a day doing back breaking excruciatingly painful work. Watch the crime rate plummet.

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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:50pm
  I agree with that. Maybe execute the crystal clear cases that deserve execution. Like Loughner, or terrorists, or serial killers…The worst of the worse…But yeah, by all means put the rest to work.
  
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- Grandpa's Attic
  Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:11am
  Acually most prisoners would prefer to work and many many systems have work programs that prisoners get to graduate too. Work comes with a bit of responsibility and not all of those guys and gals would handle even sweeping a floor without trying to fight someone or instigate and rile up the other inmates. It is great in theory, but imagine getting that Lougher kid to pick up some rocks, he is crazy enough to try to make a weapon or something with them…
  
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Grandpa's Attic
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:35pm
Injection Drugs?!?! Injection Drugs?!?!? We don’t need no Injection Drugs… we have guillotines now, after all, our fearless leader King Berry I is a big fan of the French culture….

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diesel71dan
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:32pm
” a $16,000 order with KRS-GBT in September to cover enough of the drug for six executions”

Are you kidding me???? It’s time to go back to the firing squad!

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- xoke
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:39pm
  I dunno…have you priced bullets lately, lol
  
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TJexcite
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:28pm
Nudge

can’t stop the death penalty by normal legislative means nudge and regulation to stop the means to get the drugs. But they could always find a rope and a large tree if needed but that has been nudge away from use too.

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franknshadow
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:19pm
The guillotine is ugly, but works like a charm.. I’ve seen film.. Actually, there’s an execution on youtube.. No pain and little room for error there..

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UlyssesP
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:59pm
How about a few dollars worth of lead. Administered at lots-a-feet-per-second.

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Center right
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:55pm
Not sure how I feel about this.

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number9
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:52pm
Hey, at least no animals will die….

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UpstateNYConservative
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:52pm
Why not just inject a big ol’ air bubble?

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SND97
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:51pm
Could it be that it did not come with those wonderful warning lables? You Know ***WARNING*** This drug misused can give life to a low life scumbag that had no mercy on another human being”?

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82dAirborne
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:50pm
I am torn on this one…… Part of me – a BIG part – thinks that they should be put to death in the same manner they used to take another’s life. On the other hand; it seems that stories of people being proven innocent by DNA or other means are allowing those people to go free after many years of incarceration.

Losing years of one’s life is horrible enough. But at least they get a pile of money, their name restored and the chance to enjoy whatever time might be left to them. I’m not sure how you have a do-over with an execution.

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- republitarian
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:13pm
  I have always been conflicted on this. There is no doubt that some people deserve to die, but for which crimes? These decisions are made by ordinary men with all their faults. I have heard feminists cry for CP for rapists. Some want it for child molesters and drug dealers. I don’t know where the line is and I sure don’t want to be the one to decide. But if the decision be made…
  
  FIRING SQUAD!
  
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- 82dAirborne
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:23pm
  “Conflicted” is an apt term. I don’t have a problem with killing. I have a huge problem with killing innocent people.
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:39pm
  I think for a while they were giving the death penalty too frequently with too little real evidence in many states. There should be no doubt about guilt for death penalty. Otherwise…I don’t know…It is a very hard question.
  
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Miser
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:49pm
The Chinese have an answer. It’s kind of like the book 1984. After sentencing the condemned is led down a corridor, a guard holding each arm. At some point the guards bend the condemned forward, and a third guard quickly fires a small caliber round into the lower back of the condemned’s skull causing instant death. Cost? About $1. Sounds more humane than years of death row followed by the spectacle of a lethal injection.

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- TikeSissy
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:53pm
  You forgot the last part. “Than they sell the body parts for a profit.”
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:55pm
  yep!
  
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- Miser
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:58pm
  And you can’t make any money on contaminated body parts
  
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- DashRipRock
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:05pm
  Well in Jared Loughner’s case and anyone else who hurts a child
  
  I say take out the body parts while they are watching.
  
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- Miser
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:25pm
  He’s a psycho! He’d probably get a thrill watching. That is until it was time to meet his Creator.
  
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DashRipRock
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:47pm
Who needs lethal injection when you have hours and hours of Pelosi of tape.

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- NJartificer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:48pm
  Roflmao
  
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- Margaret Thatcher
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:19pm
  LOL, now that would be cruel and unusual punishment.
  
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- mamawalker
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:26pm
  now that image in my head…priceless! Someone tell Sheriff Joe!
  
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GODSAMERICA
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:46pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama, Pelosi and Reid are stockpiling it up for their ObamaCare death panels. After all they wouldn’t want their prospective voters to be put to death and not be able to get out of prison and vote for them. I’m sure it would probably only be for the old white conservatives that would vote against them anyways. As I wrote this I got to thinking more and more about it because I really do not remember ever hearing about something like this happening until after the ObamaCare was passed. Hmmmmm, maybe so.

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orcainohio
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:44pm
Time to go back to the old rope and a high branch . We would never want the convicted to worry about expired drugs or dirty needles .

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TheDHndrsn
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:43pm
Just tell ‘em you plan to use it on a fetus. Copy Obama. The drug will be on its way within the day.

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TumbleBumble
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:42pm
What would happen if expired sodium thiopental was used? Could it kill you?

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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:49pm
  It might not. It might just do severe damage, or work extra slow…I do not want to be inhumane, no matter what the crime was. People deserve to be executed quickly, cleanly, and with dignity. Firing squad all the way.
  
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- SLARTIBARTFAST
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:04pm
  Two words: Intravenous gasoline. Well, maybe a box of strike-anywhere matches too.
  
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- TumbleBumble
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:05pm
  TROLLTRAINER – You’re probably right. I was being a little tongue-in-cheek.
  
  But my one serious question to the story is… Is Kentucky the only state being denied the drug?
  
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- ANTIFA
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:08pm
  “Two words: Intravenous gasoline.”
  
  Four words: Cruel and unusual punishment.
  
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- OneRepublic4us
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:16pm
  We wouldn’t want those two guys that raped and torched those two young girls to suffer, right?
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:36pm
  onerepublic4us,
  
  No. As a Christian I do not want anyone to suffer. It is not my job to seek vengeance. We are commissioned by God to punish murder:
  
  Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
  
  But it is a punishment, not vengeance. Criminals should be executed quickly and with dignity. Otherwise we are no better than them.
  
  Please do not get me wrong, we all hate their crimes. It is hard to see what some of them do and not kill them over days by taking one small chunk of flesh after another with a knife…I understand the emotion…But I overcome it. If it were my wife or daughter? God help them…and me…
  
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ANTIFA
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:40pm
Probably for the best. The death penalty does nothing to deter crime and only ends up costing governments more to enact than life-in-prison.

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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:47pm
  You have a point. The problem is easy to solve. 1 appeal within 1 year. Then it is out back to the wall. A few bucks in ammo…No longer a problem.
  
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- AmericanSoldier
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:02pm
  I don’t believe that it costs more to execute someone than life in prison. Maybe with all the court costs but it doesn’t matter the cost. If they killed someone, they’re done. Forfeiture of life. Take them out back. I agree, in todays forensics, one year is enough to prevent innocent people from being executed.
  
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- ANTIFA
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:02pm
  I have a question – an honest question.
  
  Why is it that so many people on The Blaze boards, who tout more than anything an ideology against “tyranny,” so comfortable with the concept of an authoritarian government and a police state justice system?
  
  It sounds like the thing many here would be most comfortable with is a military-run junta.
  
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- OneRepublic4us
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:05pm
  The death penalty does deter crime. The executed person will never commit another crime.When there is no doubt the person committed the crime (with video evidence or several witnesses and matching DNA evidence) I don’t think they should even get ONE appeal or go to death row. Take them out back and blow the empty space where their brains should be away, make them do it themselves, after all, they aren’t worried about their own salvation. It will save millions and maybe give some closure to the victim of the crime. Evil walks among us.
  
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- franknshadow
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:12pm
  This much I do know.. No one that has ever been executed re offended..
  
  Men have escaped from death row..
  
  Once that switch is thrown, or pill dropped, or bullet leaves the chamber, or whatever, when that guys dead, he will never offend again.. Ultimate deterrent..
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:12pm
  The same thing could be accomplished for less money and fascism (i.e. we could retain our due process justice system) by simply imprisoning death row inmates for life.
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:13pm
  Also; giving a man with nothing to live for a gun–way to go ******.
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:24pm
  “Why is it that so many people on The Blaze boards, who tout more than anything an ideology against “tyranny,” so comfortable with the concept of an authoritarian government and a police state justice system? It sounds like the thing many here would be most comfortable with is a military-run junta.”
  
  Who is comfortable with an authoritarian government? Or a police state? The police, with the exception of federal groups like FBI, CIA. Air Marshal…are all state run groups. But bottom line is they work for the people. We also have a great justice system that has been the model for the rest of the world. I believe there is massive corruption within that system and I would love to weed it out and clean it up, but I still believe we can get a fair trial by our peers. Typical of the lib mentality you mischaracterize what we stand for, maybe simply because you do not understand how we think. Libs also claim that we want to “overthrow” the government or that we “hate” the government. Nothing could be further from the truth! We just want the government…And justice system…That our forefathers envisioned…or as close as we can get with how the world is today. Nothing is ever perfect, and innocent men have always been unjustly executed. But I think what we have is as close to perfect as it gets.
  
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- Xcori8r
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:37pm
  Don’t need the junta, just an efficient, effective justice system (which we are far from now).
  As Ronald Reagan said:
  
  “Criminals are not dissuaded by soft words, soft judges or easy laws. They are dissuaded by fear and they are prevented from repeating their crimes by death or by incarceration.”
  
  http://www.truthbehindpolitics.com/2010/07/27/the-great-words-of-ronald-regan/
  
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- UpstateNYConservative
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:52pm
  Deterrence isn’t the purpose of having a death penalty. Some crimes warrant it, for justice’s sake.
  
  I favor death for first-degree murder, contract murder (both parties), first-degree rape, child molestation, and available for treason on a case-by-case basis. The penalty should be applied to very limited crimes, and never for a conviction based on circumstantial evidence (as what happened to Bruno Richard Hauptmann).
  
  An appeals court should review the case without petition automatically. Other appeals should be allowable by the person so sentenced, within the law. We can’t make the system perfect, so there should be as many safeguards built in. Plus, governors and the President have authority to commute sentences.
  
  My view is simple: Some crimes are just so heinous the only fitting penalty is death. Anything less is no better than a hard spanking and going to bed without supper.
  
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- OneRepublic4us
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:12pm
  I’m not into the government taking care of my problems. I live in the “wild west”. It used to be if you caught someone stealing your horse you just shot them. When my truck was stolen (and moved to meheeco without me) I was grateful I didn’t catch them because I would have wanted to shoot them. Why is it such a crime to shoot someone in the act of committing a crime? BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO PUT THEIR TWO CENT IN!
  
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- MrButcher
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:56pm
  I share your repulsion of the death pentalty, Antifa.
  
  It is disgusting, immoral and tyrannical.
  
  why do so many here seem to love, even relish, to share their favorite method of ending a human life.
  
  what are your favorite abortion procedure?
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:14pm
  Ah! The eternal liberal/conservative irony! Liberals are all for abortion, the murdering of an innocent fetus that has done nothing, yet abhor the killing of convicted killers who have committed violent, sadistic heinous crimes. Conservatives feel killing an impersonal lump of unwanted cells is murder yet they enthusiastically put to death poor people who through the fault of their parents, teachers, environment or mental insanity, have cried out for help by violently murdering others.
  
  Yeah…It is one of life’s funniest ironies on the scale of the best Greek dramas…
  
  I do not think one side will ever completely understand the other either.
  
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- Aerodog
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 11:43pm
  “poor people……..who have cried out for help by violently murdering others.”
  TROLLTRAINER, you have GOT to get back on your medicine, because your entire approach to life and responsibility is just WRONG. May I suggest you start by resigning from the Democratic Party. I fear the Progressive influence is taking over – you sound just like President Obama!
  
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- Aerodog
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 11:51pm
  TROLLTRAINER – read your other posts again – had missed the sarcasm. Thought you were going LEFTY on me there…..drinking the Kool-Aid and such…..It’s just that you sounded SO much like Barack Obama…….Yeah…..
  I withdraw my previous comment.
  
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BurntHills
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:40pm
get that juice there and get it over. it is about time we took the reins away from the greedy ******** milking America’s taxes for $100k each prisoner, each year, PLUS…. and start cleaning off Death Rows and cleaning up America.

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- BurntHills
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:42pm
  before obama cuts off all of our electricity, put the criminals on ol’ Sparky. before obama rules we cannot have sharp objects, put the criminals under a guillotine. before obama takes our ammo away, use a few rounds on the criminals lined up against a brick wall. heck, take Death Row out back and line THEM ALL up. why can’t we have squads go to each prison and simulatenously drop some Xyklon B into the Death Row air vents. problem: solved.
  
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Ironmaan
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:38pm
Thus is going on alot in hospitals. The Obama administration has been cracking down on pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities and it has been causing shortages of many different drugs. Ask any hospital pharmacist. Its another tactic of the left to get the Pharma companies to aquiesse to the administrations policies.
http://guerillatics.com

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- cheezwhiz
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:29pm
  So is there any shortage of drugs and instruments needed for abortions ?
  Any company actually refusing to sell them for any reason?
  
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trolltrainer
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:37pm
Lethal injection is BS anyway! Just take them out back and shoot them! Seriously! If I could choose I would take the firing squad any day. I don’t want to be shot up with nothing. I would rather be hanged if push came to shove…

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- republitarian
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:52pm
  I would prefer a firing squad as well. Some guy in Utah opted for it recently. I never heard if he got it.
  
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- Donnalashelle
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:17pm
  Lethal injection is only BS because it takes so long. The phrase used to be “you will get the chair for that”, but since progressives got hold of our justice system, the victims die before the criminals do.
  
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- Showtime
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:31pm
  @ REPUBLITARIAN -
  
  He got it.
  
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- what4
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 10:55pm
  Just a shot of clean freah air into the artery….night, night!
  
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Deda1
Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:36pm
use the guillotine. No fuss no muss.

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- Cobra Blue
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:38pm
  No worries….I will be glad to send you a supply of bullets. Much cheaper and a whole lot quicker. Let me know. No thanks necessary.
  
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- Ironmaan
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:39pm
  This is a symptom of a larger problem. The Obama admin is putting the squeeze on pharma manufacturing facilites and causing shortages of all sorts of hospital drugs.
  http://guerillatics.com
  
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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:41pm
  Maybe they could substitute baby formula or pet food made in China???
  
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- BurntHills
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:45pm
  with all those home drug labs in these criminal’s garages, you’d think one of those meth-head numbskulls would be able to whip up some death juice cheaply for the Gov’t..
  
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- poverty.sucks
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 7:51pm
  There’ll never be a shortage of stones.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:00pm
  Sounds like all Kentucky has to do is change their state law … pretty sure they could find a physican that would be agreeable to be used for the purchase. It’s KENTUCKY.
  
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- ANTIFA
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:09pm
  “There’ll never be a shortage of stones.”
  
  You’re right. Let’s be more like Iran.
  
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- Dustyluv
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:20pm
  I will render services with my 12 guage…No charge.
  
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- what4
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:20pm
  I prefer my death row inmates FRIED!! Pass the katsup!
  
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- MAULEMALL
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:22pm
  Make em listen to all of obamas campain promises 24/7
  
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- Showtime
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:28pm
  Solution is simple:
  1. CHANGE the Kentucky law!
  2. (a) Establish a pharmaceutical company in Kentucky to manufacture what it needs.
  2. (b) If state operated, put the prisoners to work to manufacture it, as they do license plates.
  2. (c) If not state operated, it will create more jobs.
  3. ROPE is reusable.
  
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- Happy Killmore
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:39pm
  All this over convicted murderers yet I’m sure they’re happy to still sell all their wares to abortion clinics killing the most innocent.
  
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- Socco
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:47pm
  In a just world, the punishment would quickly be carried out by the survivors, or family of the victim.
  
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- John 1776
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 8:56pm
  “A search for unexpired stock” Hummmm… Are they worried that if the stuff expired it would hurt the person they are trying to kill? Sorry, I couldn’t resist!
  
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- calonzap
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:05pm
  Hahahaha – at least, no fuss. Not so sure about the, ‘no muss.’
  
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- Grapeknutz
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:19pm
  Naw a fifty cent bullet works very well.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 18, 2011 at 9:59pm
  It’s a lethal injection. Use amonia, rat poison, or anything else in the cleaning isle. Why not just make them watch rightwing TV until they kill themselves, then there is another thing we can blame on Beck and Limbaugh. Better yet, feed them McDonalds, that will kill them, with a smile on their faces.
  Ah, just let the victoms family in their cell for 5 minutes.
  
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- hkyfan36
  Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:03am
  First thought is tree chipper. But really simple carbon monoxide. Has the exact same effect.
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:58am
  What, no Home Depots or Lowes in Kentucky? But a rope and reuse it, I’d be more than happy to buy one and send it to ya.
  
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- Bronco II
  Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:52am
  Do we still have ROPE.
  
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- tower7femacamp
  Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:12pm
  just give them a few H1N1 shots, that should do it.
  
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