the state of texas did not return the vials of compounded pentobarbital in exchange for a refund. they didn't want their money back, they would not give the drugs back. but you can see the problem here, right? you can see the problem that the states are get into. starting in 2010, 2011, as all these problems with the drugs were becoming evident, nobody wanting to manufacture them over here, nobody wanting to export them to here from any other country, nobody wanting to be caught making them in small batches here, specifically for the prison system. as all of these problems started squeezing the supplies with which the states liked to kill people, the state started doing two different things. 2010, 2011. first, they started passing secrecy laws, which had allow them to shield from public records requests information about where they were getting their drugs to kill people. the second thing they did is that they started to come up with more flexible, more creative combinations of what drugs they might try to inject into prisoners, to see if it would kill them. in oklahoma, they deci

a lot planned to switch to pentobarbital.w months after the first drug was pulled off because the company didn't want it used in executions, same happened to the second one. they put out a statement saying they adamantly oppose distressing use of our product in capital punishment. they announced a new distribution system for the drug designed to keep it, away from ever getting into prisons. cannot be used in places that plan to use it to kill people. so, january 2011, the first drug yanked off the mark tight keep it away from prisons. july, 2011, receipt placement drug gets yanked from prisons too. in 2012. some move toward a drug called propofol, the drug famous for association with the death of michael jackson, you might remember. but in august 2012, the manufacturer of that drug as well, also yanked their distribution system for that drug, specifically to make sure it couldn't get into prisons in the united states. they limited their distributors p last w announced they ha drug they were going to use to kill prisoners. a d