Execution blocked after the company opposes the use of his drug

A Nevada judge effectively suspended the execution of a killer on two occasions Wednesday after a pharmaceutical company objected to the use of one of his drugs to put someone to death.

Elizabeth Gonzalez, Clark District Judge, Bans Use Scott Raymond Dozier, 47, was to be executed with an injection of three chemicals never tried in the United States

The spokesman for Nevada jails, Brooke Santina, did not make any immediate comment.

Alvogen, based in New Jersey, had urged the judge to block the use of his sedative midazolam, claiming that the state had illegally obtained the product by "subterfuge" and had the intent to use it for unauthorized purposes. The pharmaceutical company has raised concerns that the drug could lead to botched execution, citing cases that have apparently turned elsewhere in the country.

Todd Bice, an Alvogen lawyer, accused the state of fraudulently obtaining the company's drug at a Las Vegas pharmacy rather than at the prison. State of Ely. He said that Alvogen had sent a letter to state officials in April telling them he objected to the use of his products in executions, particularly midazolam.

The judge ruled that based on this letter, Alvogen had a reasonable probability of winning her case, and she issued a temporary injunction against the use of the drug. Gonzalez put an audience in the case for Sept. 10.

Alvogen said in a statement that he was satisfied with the decision and will continue to work through the legal system to ensure that his products are not used in executions. The second pharmaceutical company, Sandoz, also raised objections to Wednesday's hearing on the use of one of its drugs – the muscle paralyzing substance cisatracurium – in the run. But the company did not immediately ask to formally join the Alvogen trial.

A third company, Pfizer, asked Nevada last year to make the third drug to be used in the run, the powerful opioid fentanyl. But the state refused. Fentanyl, which has been blamed for murderous overdoses across the country, has not been used before during an execution.

Jordan T. Smith, an assistant to the Solicitor General of Nevada, retorted Wednesday that Nevada had not put up a "smoke screen". "or do something wrong to get the drugs." He said that drugs ordered by the state prison system are regularly shipped to Las Vegas.

"All this action is just a damage control PR "Smith said about Alvogen

Pharmaceutical companies have resisted drug use." 10 years, citing both legal and ethical concerns. "However, the legal challenge filed by Alvogen is only the second of its kind in the US, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.The previous challenge, filed last year by another company in Arkansas, did not finally failed to stop this execution.

The midazolam of Alvogen was replaced in May by the Nevada diazepam stock, commonly known as Valium.The drug is intended to make the inmate unconscious The new Nevada enforcement protocol also requires the use of fentanyl to slow the inmate's breathing and cisatracurium to stop his breathing.

Bice said that Alvogen does not take a stand on the death penalty itself but opposes the use of the drug. this is fundamentally against the purpose of the drug – to save and improve the lives of patients.

In court documents, Alvogen also cited the risk of botched execution, citing examples in Alabama, Arizona and Oklahoma in recent years. He seemed to regain consciousness or took an exceptionally long time before dying.

Dozier, who attempted suicide in the past, said he preferred execution to life behind bars

. a life, "the veteran of the army and the user and the methamphetamine dealer recently told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. At hearings and letters, he said that there was a limit to the amount of works of art and exercise that a person can do in jail.

Dozier was sentenced to death in 2007 for stealing, killing and dismembering Jeremiah Miller at the age of 22. The Las Vegas motel in 2002. Miller had come to Nevada to buy ingredients to make methamphetamine. His decapitated chest was found in a suitcase.

In 2005, Dozier was sentenced to 22 years in prison for shooting another drug dealer, Jasen Greene, 26, whose body was found in 2002 in a shallow place. falls outside Phoenix. One witness testified that Dozier used a hammer to break Greene's limbs so that the corpse would enter a plastic container.

Although Dozier tried to save his life, he allowed federal public defenders to challenge the protocol of execution. They argued that the combination of three untested drugs would be less humane than killing a pet.

The last execution of Nevada dates back to 2006.

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Associate press editors Lindsay Whitehurst and Julian Hattem in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.