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As his adult children sobbed a few feet away, Dennis McGuire suffered for 24 long
minutes while Ohio
A small group of
pharmacists are keeping executions running on experimental drugs after everyone else
has refused to participate.
Let's demand that the American Pharmaceutical Association bans their members from
participating, and end these cruel executions.
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Teresa,
Two weeks ago, the state of Ohio
was one of the most cruel and unusual in recent history.
Dennis McGuire suffered for 24 long minutes before finally passing away
-- because Ohio
With doctors, nurses, and pharmaceutical companies all refusing to participate in
executions,
a small group of pharmacists are experimenting with untested, lethal injection cocktails
to gruesomely kill people like Dennis McGuire and keep executions happening.
If the American Pharmaceutical Association would ban their members from participating
in executions, we could stop lethal injections
and end almost all executions in the US
Tell the American Pharmaceutical Association: Stop your involvement in executions now.
Electric chairs, gas chambers, hangings, and firing squads have been banned by almost
all states, leaving lethal injection as the only legal method of killing left. But
lethal injection by its very nature requires medical professionals to be involved.
Doctors and nurses have long since barred themselves from participating in executions
, and they haven’t participated for decades. More recently, all major pharmaceutical
companies have banned their drugs from being used.
So states have been been forced to turn to so-called “compounding pharmacists” --
who are not regulated by the FDA -- to develop untested cocktails like the one used
to kill McGuire.
Ahead of the American Pharmaceutical Association’s annual meeting this spring, let's
tell pharmacists in the US
ban pharmacists from executions and effectively end capital punishment in most states.
American Pharmaceutical Association: Ban your members from participating in executions.
McGuire was injected with a lethal cocktail that a federal judge conceded ahead of
time was an "experiment in lethal injection processes".
As his adult children sobbed a few feet away in a witness room, McGuire suffered
for 24 long minutes
-- calling out to his children and struggling loudly for air. It was one of the
longest executions since Ohio
Without medical professionals, it would be impossible for states to produce lethal
injection cocktails. Doctors and nurses in the US
associations from participating in state killings. But some
pharmacists, a profession that is meant to help and save people, are participating
in these killings for a few extra dollars.
Let’s call on pharmacists to ban their profeession from participating in capital
punishment.
Call on pharmacists to take a stand against any involvement in capital punishment.
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Angus, Kelsey, Martin, and the rest of the team at SumOfUs
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