August 2, 2016 One afternoon, Donnie Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Compounding Pharmacy in Anniston, Alabama—”Compounding for Life’s Problems”—came back from a meeting to find a strange request from the Alabama Department of Corrections. The girl who’d answered the phone had written the question down on a notepad: Did he want to make a lethal-injection drug that would be used to carry out an execution?…
The Sordid Ways Death-Penalty States Obtain Execution Drugs
