The Shady World Of Execution Drug Trafficking
December 14, 2011 •
Once upon a time, Chris Harris was a broker for Kayem Pharma, a small India-based pharmaceutical company that sold sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that, in addition to its legitimate health care uses, has been used to kill over 1,000 prisoners in the U.S. Late last year, he brokered a sale of sodium thiopental to the states of Nebraska and South Dakota, states that have collectively carried out exactly one execution this century. Nebraska paid just over $2,000 for enough of the drug (500 grams) for 166 executions (there are 12 people on Nebraska’s death row), while pledging it would not be reselling the drug to other states.
Why so much? That is not clear, but eventually the DEA ruled that it had all been imported illegally anyway and could not be used. Kayem, meanwhile, expressed dismay that their drug would be used for executions, saying that it violated their “ethos of Hinduism”. Angry emails between company headquarters and its U.S. agents, with epithets like “drug peddlers” and “piece of sh*t thief”, flew back and forth. Chris Harris was fired for “indulging in activities detrimental to Company interest.”
But he wasn’t done. He turned up as a broker for more sodium thiopental, this time with the Swiss-based drug company Naari. He said he wanted samples (free samples) to bring to Zambia, where such medicines are sorely needed. The company naively obliged. Harris then turned around and sold these free samples (485 grams worth) to Nebraska, for over $5,000. (Note how Nebraska’s insistent need for the drug caused the price to more than double.)
Naari is outraged, demanding that its drugs be returned. Nebraska officials, unwavering in their determination to kill some prisoners, do not care. This, despite the fact that they are, in effect, retaining stolen property.
More and more of those most directly involved in executions are objecting to or opting out of participating in this unseemly practice: doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, EMTs, prison wardens, and drug companies (Hospira, Novartis, Lundbeck, Kayem, and now Naari). (Not to mention the entire European Union.) As a result, efforts to keep the prisoner killing business open are veering into some seriously shady terriroty. And for what?
Why all the fuss about this one drug? States & countries that are determined to kill convicted criminals have many drugs to choose from. ANY anaesthetic or opiod in a high enough dose will make someone unconscious then stop their breathing. If the concern is a humane death, that would do it.
(Illegal-Capital Punishments) Note: Lethal Injection Drugs=Execution Drugs=Psychiatrical Injection Drugs=Psychiatrical Drinkable Water=Psychiatrical Water for Patients' Showering=Products for Human-Baby Hygienes(Animal Tested!)=Influenza Vaccines(required, and not necessrily needed(even You, Yourselves).)=Asking You To Smile, even if you are very unhappy and never had had each, any and everything of the little happinesses in the lives of you and your everyday lives; lost every single one of the happinesses.=Industrial Alchoholic Bevarages=Industrial Cigarettes/Cigars; Tobaccos.=Illegal Drugs=Drugs for Increasing Sexual Drives=Controlled Medical Substances=Common Cold/Flu Drugs=Selfishnesses/Greeds/Mind-Brain Controls=Asking You Not to Have Your Own Thoughts;Thinkings=Preventing any Educations=Asking-Manipulating You Not to Have Your Own Emotions.
Most Doctors choose to forgetting their Oaths: (Original) Hippocratic Oaths to make mass-excessive profitable gains, extra-unnecessary briberies, fames-?-power-?; are they the Laboratories; are they the Pharmaceuticals; who are You, really, into these of the Realities?
I am a Nothing, something useless, echoless, soundless, a garbage, a trash, a junk; after usage, toss away as usual; I am a nothing, nameless faceless, none identites. Nothings.
For Geode: ANY anaesthetic or opiod probably cannot be used because the execution drugs and procedures are set in either state law or written protocalls. It's not easy to re-write red tape.
Why all the fuss about this one drug? States & countries that are determined to kill convicted criminals have many drugs to choose from. ANY anaesthetic or opiod in a high enough dose will make someone unconscious then stop their breathing. If the concern is a humane death, that would do it.
(Illegal-Capital Punishments) Note: Lethal Injection Drugs=Execution Drugs=Psychiatrical Injection Drugs=Psychiatrical Drinkable Water=Psychiatrical Water for Patients’ Showering=Products for Human-Baby Hygienes(Animal Tested!)=Influenza Vaccines(required, and not necessrily needed(even You, Yourselves).)=Asking You To Smile, even if you are very unhappy and never had had each, any and everything of the little happinesses in the lives of you and your everyday lives; lost every single one of the happinesses.=Industrial Alchoholic Bevarages=Industrial Cigarettes/Cigars; Tobaccos.=Illegal Drugs=Drugs for Increasing Sexual Drives=Controlled Medical Substances=Common Cold/Flu Drugs=Selfishnesses/Greeds/Mind-Brain Controls=Asking You Not to Have Your Own Thoughts;Thinkings=Preventing any Educations=Asking-Manipulating You Not to Have Your Own Emotions.
Most Doctors choose to forgetting their Oaths: (Original) Hippocratic Oaths to make mass-excessive profitable gains, extra-unnecessary briberies, fames-?-power-?; are they the Laboratories; are they the Pharmaceuticals; who are You, really, into these of the Realities?
I am a Nothing, something useless, echoless, soundless, a garbage, a trash, a junk; after usage, toss away as usual; I am a nothing, nameless faceless, none identites. Nothings.
For Geode: ANY anaesthetic or opiod probably cannot be used because the execution drugs and procedures are set in either state law or written protocalls. It’s not easy to re-write red tape.
The next debate in Nebraska will likely be about whether we should change the execution protocol so we don't have to use drug dealers to procure sodium thiopenal. I wrote a bit about this a little over a week ago: http://kohenari.net/post/13829658675
The next debate in Nebraska will likely be about whether we should change the execution protocol so we don't have to use drug dealers to procure sodium thiopenal. I wrote a bit about this a little over a week ago: http://kohenari.net/post/13829658675
The next debate in Nebraska will likely be about whether we should change the execution protocol so we don't have to use drug dealers to procure sodium thiopenal. I wrote a bit about this a little over a week ago: http://kohenari.net/post/13829658675
The next debate in Nebraska will likely be about whether we should change the execution protocol so we don’t have to use drug dealers to procure sodium thiopenal. I wrote a bit about this a little over a week ago: http://kohenari.net/post/13829658675
Why all the fuss about this one drug? States & countries that are determined to kill convicted criminals have many drugs to choose from.
great Post
The V.A. Is buying drugs from Harris to give to they're patients. I am one of them. I have a life threatening disease and rely on meds to keep me alive and this asshole is scamming them and me, who has no choice to take what they give me. He is "manufacturing" Fluconazole".
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