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More on the Shortage of Sodium Thiopental

By Steve Hall

USA Today carries, "Anesthesia shortage may delay executions," by Jessie Halladay,A nationwide shortage of several anesthesia drugs has left several states scrambling to find enough doses to carry out lethal injections ? potentially delaying executions well into next year.Kentucky announced this week that it would not be able to carry out two executions, despite pending death warrants, because the state has only enough sodium thiopental, also known as Pentothal, to perform a single lethal injection. "We have reached out to some other states, but that has not been fruitful," said J. Michael Brown, secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. "We've had other states call us trying to find it." And:Hospira, based outside Chicago, the sole U...continue to full post

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