Christa Pike's Drug Supplier Is Protected by THIS

Christa Pike received two doses of pentobarbital on September 30 and walked out of that execution alive, and Tennessee's position is that its people did everything by the book. Look at what the book requires and the problem comes into focus. Executions need a drug and a person who can get a line into a vein, and both are getting harder for a state to obtain.

The medical profession's own organizations instruct doctors and nurses not to participate. The companies that manufacture these drugs for hospital use refuse to sell them to corrections departments. Tennessee's workaround is a supplier whose name state law keeps out of public records, and the state has told courts that disclosure would drive that supplier away permanently.

There is a reason to be skeptical of what that cover has concealed. Tennessee's 2022 independent review, run by former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton, found the state never provided the pharmacy mixing its execution chemicals with a copy of the protocol, and that required endotoxin testing never happened. On October 7, Judge I'Ashea Myles ordered drug lot numbers preserved among everything else from Pike's attempt.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski on whether Tennessee's secrecy argument survives what happened to Pike.

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