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A Shortage of Thiopental Sodium - But Not in Texas

By Steve Hall

The AP reports, "Worldwide shortage of death penalty drug threatened upcoming Ohio execution," by Andrew Welsh-Huggins.  It's via the Republic of Columbus, Indiana.A worldwide shortage of an anesthetic used in lethal injections across the country almost kept Ohio from proceeding with an execution scheduled for Thursday. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction finally procured enough thiopental sodium on Monday afternoon for the scheduled execution of a man sentenced to die for shooting a man he met in 1983.An attorney for the state had warned a federal judge Friday and again Monday that the prisons department might not be able to find enough thiopental sodium to proceed with the execution of Michael Beuke, of Cincinnati...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).