Sneaking around buying drugs for executions

In this startling article, Ed Pilkington documents how Republican governed states in the US are paying huge sums on the black market to obtain, illegally, drugs intended to be used to execute death row prisoners: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/revealed-republican-led-states-secretly-spending-huge-sums-on-execution-drugs.

The execution chamber at the Arizona state prison complex- Florence. Arizona spent $1.5m in the midst of the pandemic to surreptitiously source execution drugs.
The execution chamber at the Arizona state prison complex.

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