Execution Drugs Texas Purchased From Questionable Supplier Have Expired
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Doses of a banned execution drug that the State of Texas has been fighting to acquire are now expired.
Texas bought sodium thiopental from a drug supplier in India, Chris Harris, in 2015.
Harris has billed himself as a manufacturer of the drug, but Chris McDaniel, an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, says that’s misleading.
“He has registered two facilities with the federal government – like ‘this is where I do my drug manufacturing operation,’” McDaniel says. “We went to those facilities and it turns out one is an office space, but no drugs are being made there. And then there’s this other building that he registered which is just an old apartment that he used to live in that he left owing a lot of rent on.”
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