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Continued Coverage of the Sodium Thiopental Shortage

By Steve Hall

Last month an Oklahoma execution was stayed because the state did not have an adequate supply of sodium thiopental for the lethal injection.  Today's Oklahoman reports, "Lethal injection made its debut in Oklahoma 20 years ago."  It's written by Ken Raymond.It was Sept. 10, 1990. Oklahoma had executed its first prisoner by lethal injection. Over the next two decades, the state would employ the drug cocktail 91 more times, executing more people in that span than in the preceding 75 years. Three were women. Additional convicts are scheduled to die this year. The federal government and the 35 states with the death penalty use lethal injection as the primary form of execution, and it has been used on 1,050 prisoners nationwide, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).