A laboratory that was revealed last week to have been testing the purity of a lethal-injection drug for the Department of Justice says it will no longer test the drug if it is intended for executions
FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of testing firm DYNALABS are seen in St Louis, Missouri, U.S., July 9, 2020. Picture taken July 9, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant
Two of the testing laboratories identified, including DYNALABS, told Reuters they did not know the samples of the drug, pentobarbital, belonged to the Justice Department, nor that it was intended for executions. “It will be our policy going forward to require a statement from our client indicating their preparation will not be used for execution,” Michael Pruett and Russell Odegard, DYNALABS’ co-founders, said in a statement published on Friday on their website. “Clients that decline to make that declaration will not be allowed to submit their pentobarbital preparations to DYNALABS for testing.”
The Justice Department had relied on test results showing that its pentobarbital was potent and uncontaminated as it argued in court that it was taking care not to breach a constitutional ban on “cruel and unusual punishments.”
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