USA - Missouri. Attorney General Chris Koster suggested that the state begin producing execution drugs.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster gave a speech in which he suggested that the state of Missouri begin producing execution drugs. Koster told a Bar Association conference that the state could reduce objections to its execution protocol by creating a state lab to manufacture the lethal injection drug, pentobarbital. "The Legislature should appropriate funds to establish a state-operated, DEA-licensed, laboratory to produce the execution chemicals in our state. As a matter of policy, Missouri should not be reliant on merchants whose identities must be shielded from public view or who can exercise unacceptable leverage over this profound state act." Missouri would be the first state to set up a state-operated lab for producing execution drugs.