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Did Kentucky Violate a Judge's Order in Obtaining LI Drug?

By Steve Hall

Today's Lexington Herald-Leader carries the AP report, "Lawyer seeks to stop Ky. from using execution drug."  It's written by Brett Barrouquere. Kentucky appears to have violated a judge's order stopping all executions and preventing the state from taking any action to carry out a lethal injection by purchasing a key drug used in the process, an attorney for several death row inmates said Thursday. Public defender David Barron wants to bar the state from ever using the 18 grams of sodium thiopental the state acquired this month. Despite a national shortage of sodium thiopental, Kentucky bought enough of the fast-acting narcotic from a Georgia company to carry out three lethal injections. The packaging indicated the drug was made by Sandoz International GmbH, a European generics company, Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet spokeswoman Jennifer Brislin said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).