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Doctors: Execution drugs could help COVID-19 patients

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HOUSTON – Secrecy surrounding executions could hinder efforts by a group of medical professionals who are asking the nation’s death penalty states for medications used in lethal injections so that they can go to coronavirus patients who are on ventilators, according to a death penalty expert and a doctor who's behind the request.

In a letter sent this month to corrections departments, a group of seven pharmacists, public health experts, and intensive care unit doctors asked states with the death penalty to release any stockpiles they might have of execution drugs to health care facilities. “Your stockpile could save the lives of hundreds of people; though this may be a small fraction of the total anticipated deaths, it is a central

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