‘Nothing Good Happens in Secret’—The Sordid Ways Death-Penalty States Obtain Execution Drugs

‘One afternoon, Donnie Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Compounding Pharmacy in Anniston, Alabama—”Compounding for Life’s Problems“—came back from a meeting to find a strange request from the Alabama Department of Corrections. The girl who’d answered the phone had written their question down on a notepad: Did he want to make a lethal injection drug that they would use to carry out an execution?
“I went, what? They do this?” He called them back and let them know that he would not make a drug that would be used to kill. “For me, as a health-care professional, I want to help people live longer. The last thing I want to do is to help someone die.”’
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