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Arizona to Switch to Single-Drug Lethal Injection

By Steve Hall

"3-chemical process to be used twice more; Arizona plans to switch to single-drug executions," is the AP report written by Paul Davenport.  It's via the Arizona Daily Star. Arizona plans to switch to using just one execution drug, dropping a three-drug protocol used since the 1990s, Corrections Director Charles Ryan said Friday. Ryan told The Associated Press in an interview that the state would make the switch after two executions scheduled in the next two weeks. The switch is in the works to "minimize or mitigate any perceived concerns that a three-drug protocol represents any type of concern or risk," he said. Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, have switched to one drug, the sedative pentobarbital...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).