Tool Time: Missouri Experiments withExecution
Tool Time: Missouri Experiments withExecution – We’re giving tonight’s tool time award to the MissouriDepartment of Corrections for playing judge, jury, and executioner when itcomes to capital punishment. The state’s DOC recently agreed to switch to theone-drug injection model, and they’ve decided to use the contentious drugpropofol for executions. This drug is designed to reduce anxiety, but theythink administering one large dose of the drug will cause the heart to stopbeating. Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
Letter: Take time to evaluate new execution drug
Filed under: Missouri Drug Use
Letter: Take time to evaluate new execution drug (access required). Published: July 23, 2012. By Staff Report. Missouri may soon become the first state to use the drug propofol for an execution. Being “first” in this context is a dubious distinction …
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Pill Mills Popping Up in Missouri
Filed under: Missouri Drug Use
LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) As you've heard on KMOX in recent weeks, prescription pain pill abuse is now considered an epidemic in this country. Now federal officials suspect powerful narcotics are making it onto the streets of St. Louis under the cover of “pain …
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