Compounding Problems

The Christian state of Missouri has run into a little trouble putting its latest black man to death. To begin with, the necessary drugs have been banned by the European Union, driving the warriors for justice to seek alternative suppliers. In the case of the Christian state of Missouri, the alternative until recently was a venerable Oklahoma pharmacist called Apothecary Shoppe and founded, as one might expect, in 1995. However, in the face of legal challenges from lawyers acting on behalf of the correctional beneficiary, Apothecary Shoppe has now cut off supplies. It is rumoured that the Christian state of Missouri may have squirrelled away a stash in case of just such an emergency; but the democratic state of Missouri has come over all coy about just how it intends to get its Christian duty done. An execution last month in the Christian state of Ohio took twenty-six minutes to accomplish; and although Missouri may well have sufficient drugs to kill its wayward citizen, it remains an open question whether the punishment will be free of the Christian but unconstitutional qualities of cruelty and unusualness.