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More Lethal Injection News

By Steve Hall

In Nebraska, the Lincoln Journal Star reports, "Lawyer questions legality of purchase of lethal injection drug from Indian company."  It's written by Kevin O'Hanlon. A lawyer for death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore is challenging the legality of Nebraska's purchase of one of three lethal injection drugs from an Indian company and questioning whether the state even bought the right drug. The state said it recently paid $2,056 to Kayem Pharmaceutical Pvt. Ltd. for 500 grams of sodium thiopental. The drug has been in short supply since last year. And the only U.S. manufacturer of the drug, Hospira Inc., is ending production because of death-penalty opposition overseas. Jerry Soucie, an attorney with the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy, has filed a motion with the Nebraska Supreme Court challenging the purchase...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).