A pharmaceutical company sues to stop Nevada's execution; killer says that he wants to die

Dennis McGuire in Ohio

Midazolam was replaced in May for Nevada's expired prison stocks of diazepam, a similar sedative commonly known as Valium. The Nevada protocol of execution, the first of its kind, also requires that the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl slow down Dozier's breathing and that the paralytic muscle cisatracurium prevent movement and stop breathing.

Alvogen claims to have learned the plan of use of midazolam at Dozier. execution on Saturday after receiving press inquiries, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal.

According to the complaint, obtained by the paper, the company claims that it sent the letter to the governors, attorneys general and directors of each department corrections in each state of the death penalty at the end of the year. April warning them not to use its products in performances, including midazolam. Alvogen reportedly asked states who had bought the drug and considered using it for any future executions to send it back to the company for a refund.

A letter was also sent directly to Ely State Prison.

under the direction of the Chief Medical Officer, purchased the drug from his wholesale distributor without disclosing the contents of the letter. Alvogen claims that the state has hurt the reputation and goodwill of the company.

"Although Alvogen takes no position on the death penalty, Alvogen's products have been developed to save and improve the lives of patients." The complaint said.

Nevada refused Pfizer's application last year to return the company's diazepam and fentanyl, which is at the center of the US opioid crisis and was blamed for overdoses at the company. 39; national scale but was not used for execution. Arkansas last year, McKesson Corp. said that he did not want to have anything to do with the executions and accused the state of obtaining vecuronium bromide, a drug used to stop the lungs of detainees, under false pretenses.

Corrections "intentionally sought to circumvent McKesson's policies of buying Pfizer's vecuronium bromide under the auspices that it would be used for medical purposes in the ADC health facility."

The Supreme Court of Arkansas ruled against the company and allowed this execution but legal issues about whether pharmaceutical companies can block the use of their drugs in the death penalty have not been resolved, Dunham said.

Dozier Repaints His Desire to Die in Recent Interviews with the Reno Gazette Journal and the Las Vegas Review-Journal

"Life in Prison is not a Life," Journal-Journal said . He did not respond to messages through his attorneys to speak with the Associated Press.

Dozier, son of a federal water engineer, grew up in Boulder City, Nevada, and attended high school in Phoenix. He is an honorably released Veteran of the Army; a divorced father who became an emergency medical technician during his wife 's high – risk pregnancy; a pastel painter; a landscaper;

He was close to his grandfather, who committed suicide when Dozier was 5 years old. He told a clinical psychologist who testified at his trial that he had been badually badaulted by a 5-year-old teenage neighbor. The psychologist diagnosed in Dozier an antisocial personality disorder with narcissistic traits

There is a limit to the amount of works of art and exercise that a person can Doing it in prison, said Dozier at hearings and letters in Clark County District. Judge Jennifer Togliatti, who postponed her execution last year

In 2005, Dozier was sentenced to 22 years in prison for shooting down Jasen Greene, 26, whose body was found in 2002 in a pit shallow outside of Phoenix. A witness testified that Dozier used a hammer to break Greene's limbs so that the corpse would enter a plastic bag that Dozier was carrying methamphetamine, equipment and chemicals.

Dozier was sentenced to death for stealing, killing and dismemberment. old Jeremiah Miller at a Las Vegas motel in 2002. Miller had come to Nevada to buy ingredients to make methamphetamine. His decapitated torso was found in a suitcase in a garbage can of the building, he also missed the legs and hands. He was identified by tattoos on the shoulders. His head has never been found.

Relatives of Dozier's victims are not expected when he is executed, Nevada prison spokeswoman Brooke Santina said. Several members of the Dozier family are expected.

Dozier has suspended any appeal from his conviction and sentence, which would make up about 10% of the 1,477 inmates who have abandoned the appeals and who have been executed throughout the country since 1977. Penalty Information Center .

He did however allow federal public defenders to challenge the enforcement protocol established last year by state medical and penitentiary authorities. They argued that the combination of three untested drugs would be less humane than burying a pet.

The judge invited the Supreme Court to re-examine the situation, stating that she expected the execution of Nevada to be closely monitored. identify and obtain medicines from pharmaceutical companies that do not want their products to be used for the death penalty.

The High Court of the State decided in May that the execution could go ahead but did not consider the protocol of three drugs "Given that Nevada uses a combination of drugs that nobody uses before, there is a lot about his protocol of which we know nothing, "said Dunham

. ] Midazolam should make Dozier unconscious before being injected with fentanyl. This will be followed by the muscle paralyzing drug.

Last week, the US Civil Liberties Union of Nevada sued the state for getting the drug plan and plans for lethal injection, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal. Amy Rose, legal director of the ACLU in Nevada, told the newspaper that she feared that the state would continue execution under the "veil of secrecy and with the use of such risky drugs "

. says the newspaper. "It is a matter of ensuring that the state, when it decides that it wants to take life, does so in a constitutional and legal manner."

The last execution of Nevada dates back to 2006, when Daryl Linnie Mack asked to be put to death for his conviction in a rape and murder in 1988 in Reno.