OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide Missouri with a made-to-order drug for an inmate’s execution.

Court documents filed Monday show that death row inmate Michael Taylor has reached an agreement with The Apothecary Shoppe.

According to the documents, the Tulsa pharmacy will not will not prepare or provide pentobarbital or any other drug for use in Taylor’s execution. The documents ask a judge to dismiss the case.

Taylor’s attorney, Matt Hellman, says the pharmacy has not already provided any such drug to the Missouri Department of Corrections for Michael’s execution.

Taylor’s execution is scheduled for Feb. 26. He pleaded guilty to abducting, raping and stabbing to death a 15-year-old Kansas City girl in 1989.

 

 

4:30 p.m.  (AP) – An Oklahoma pharmacy has submitted a sealed response to a Missouri death row inmate’s lawsuit accusing it of illegally providing Missouri with a made-to-order drug to be used in his lethal injection.

The Apothecary Shoppe filed its response to Michael Taylor’s lawsuit last week after getting permission from U.S. District Judge Terrence Kern to keep its response sealed. Kern has scheduled a Tuesday hearing in Tulsa to weigh arguments about whether it should remain sealed.

Taylor says the Tulsa pharmacy is compounding pentobarbital and illegally selling it out of state. The drug’s sole licensed manufacturer refuses to sell it for use in executions.

The pharmacy hasn’t acknowledged that it supplies the drug, citing a Missouri law barring the disclosure of the names of those on the state’s execution team.