Nebraska prison officials tried unsuccessfully to buy lethal injection drug from U.S. distributor

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joe Duggan

LINCOLN — Nebraska prison officials recently made an unsuccessful attempt to buy a lethal injection drug from a United States distributor after having spent almost $28,000 months ago to get the drug from overseas.

The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services last month filed a purchase request for $826 to buy four units of pancuronium bromide, a paralytic agent that is the second of three drugs administered under Nebraska’s lethal injection protocol.

The Oct. 14 document, obtained by The World-Herald under an open records request, listed as the vendor Gulf Coast Pharmaceuticals of Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

But the next day, the order was canceled, according to a handwritten note on the purchase document.

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1. It's surreal, our government wages a war on (some) drugs (and their users)

All this goes on while state governments are trying to do some behind closed doors deals to purchase drugs that do outright kill people.