A Connecticut chemicals manufacturer that was
identified as having sold a lethal drug to the Trump administration for use in
its execution spree has said that it will no longer produce the substance,
according to a letter obtained by The Intercept.
John Criscio, the president of Absolute Standards, wrote to two Connecticut legislators last month that
his company stopped manufacturing pentobarbital in December 2020. “We have no
intention to resume any production or sale of pentobarbital,” Criscio
added.
The one-page letter, which has not previously been reported
on, is the first formal acknowledgment by Criscio that his small family
business was making pentobarbital, a barbiturate that has been used both
by itself and in combination with other drugs to carry
out lethal injection executions.
The letter notes that the company had been registered with the
Drug Enforcement Agency to manufacture pentobarbital, and it makes no mention
of whether the company had provided execution drugs to the federal Bureau of
Prisons. On two previous occasions, Criscio denied to The Intercept that his
company had done so. The Intercept called Absolute Standards multiple times on
Friday and was told that Criscio was not around. The company did not respond to
an email requesting comment, nor did Criscio respond to messages sent to his
personal email account.
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