The drugs used to perform lethal injections can also be used to treat patients suffering from the novel coronavirus.
US doctors and public health experts are asking states to hand over their death-penalty drugs — to save lives.
In an April 9 letter to directors of state prisons, obtained by The Marshall Project's Keri Blakinger, the medical experts said:"the medicines your states are currently holding for use in lethal injection executions are in short supply and desperately needed to treat patients suffering from COVID-19.
Since the pandemic, states have not even been using these drugs for that. On April 1, a Texas court issued a stay of execution, its third since the outbreak, citing the disruption to the court system. In their letter, the experts, such as Harvard Medical School's Prashant Yadav and David Waisel, argued that the drugs death-penalty states typically use to take lives could, instead, be used to help front-line doctors extend them.
Story continues"Your stockpile could save the lives of hundreds of people," they wrote."At this crucial moment for our country, we must prioritize the needs and lives of patients above ending the lives of prisoners."Read the original article on Business Insider
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