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More on the Sodium Thiopental Shortage

By Steve Hall

There is more news from Ohio and Arizona, today. "Ohio running out of execution drug," is the title of Alan Johnson's report in the Columbus Dispatch. Early next year, unless a national shortage of the drug thiopental sodium eases, Ohio prison officials will have to ask the governor to grant temporary reprieves for condemned killers, a spokeswoman said today.The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has a sufficient quantity of the single drug used in lethal injections for the two remaining executions scheduled for this year."We have no reason to be concerned for the executions for calendar year 2010,'' Julie Walburn said.That covers Michael Benge of Butler County on Oct. 6 and Sidney Cornwell of Mahoning County on Nov...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).