Associated Press
PHOENIX -- Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne says there’s no need to conduct a fraud investigation into two execution drugs that were imported from Britain under the wrong labeling.
The lawyer for death row inmate Eric John King asked Attorney General Tom Horne on Friday to have an independent law enforcement agency investigate possible violation of a state law against making false statements on official documents.
The request cites Food and Drug Administration forms in which the imported drugs are described as “animal (food processing).”
Horne says the mislabeling was the result of an honest coding error by a broker and that the federal government had said previously in e-mails and letters that the state was entitled to get the drugs.
Horne says the broker wasn’t trying to mislead anyone.