Published January 08, 2015
The growing suspicions surrounding where states obtain lethal injections have motivated the Missouri attorney general to propose something never previously tried — establishing a lab where the state can make its own execution drugs.
The idea, if widely adopted, could remove shadowy compounding pharmacies from the nation's execution system and offer a reliable supply of the deadly chemicals that have become hard for prisons to obtain. State legislative leaders say the proposal deserves consideration.
Chris Koster first broached the idea Thursday in a speech to the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. He called it a better alternative than relying on "an uneasy cooperation" with medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies.
Koster said obtaining execution drugs has become so problematic that a new idea was needed.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-attorney-general-proposes-creation-of-state-run-drug-lab-to-mix-lethal-injections