Pfizer Says Execution Drugs Sold to Arkansas Without Knowing
- Drugs sold to state by pharmaceutical distributor McKesson
- State plans to execute inmates this month, New Yorker reports
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Pfizer Inc. said drugs that can be used to execute inmates by lethal injection were sold to the Arkansas Department of Corrections without its knowledge by the distributor McKesson Corp., in violation of the drugmaker’s policy.
The statement followed a report in the New Yorker that the state of Arkansas was planning to execute seven people before the end of April, after which the lethal injection drugs will expire.