Oklahoma pharmacy agrees not to supply drug for Missouri execution

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Oklahoma pharmacy agrees not to supply drug for Missouri execution

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - An Oklahoma compounding pharmacy has agreed not to provide a drug needed to execute a Missouri inmate who has argued that it could cause severe and inhumane pain, but state officials said they would still proceed with the execution. U.S. District Judge Terence Kern on Tuesday dismissed inmate Michael Taylor's lawsuit against The Apothecary Shoppe in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after the settlement. The Missouri Corrections Department did not respond to a request for comment. Taylor's lawyers state in their court filings that in 2000, the Supreme Court recognized a Sixth Amendment right to have a jury find the facts needed to condemn someone, and in 2003, Missouri made that right retroactive and started vacating every death sentence lacking jury findings.

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