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National Lethal Injection News Coverage

By Steve Hall

I'm going to break coverage into three posts this morning.  First, national reports, followed by posts with Texas and Georgia coverage. "Executions in Doubt in Fallout Over Drug," is the title of the New York Times report by Kevin Sack. The worldwide shortage of a drug used in executions reverberated this week in two of the most active death-penalty states as Texas announced it would replace the anesthetic in its three-drug regimen and federal agents seized Georgia?s supply. The seizure on Tuesday of the powerful barbiturate ? sodium thiopental ? at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, site of the state?s death row, has at least temporarily blocked future executions, although none are now scheduled...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).