Doctors are asking states to use their lethal-injection drugs to treat patients with COVID-19, instead

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• States that execute prisoners by lethal injection have a stockpile of drugs that, amid the pandemic, are now in short supply.
• "Your stockpile could save the lives of hundreds of people," a group of doctors and public health experts wrote in an April 9 letter to state prison officials.
• States like Texas have been unable to carry out executions due to the disruption in the court system.
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US doctors and public health experts are asking states to hand over their death-penalty drugs — to save lives.

In an April 9 letter to directors of state prisons, obtained by The Marshall Project's Keri Blakinger, the medical experts said: "the medicines your states are currently holding for use in lethal injection executions are in short supply and desperately needed to treat patients suffering from COVID-19."

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