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Drug Shortage Delays Execution in Some States, Not Texas

By Steve Hall

Andrew Welsh-Huggins writes the AP report, "Some US executions held up by shortage of drug."  It's via Google News.  Here are excerpts from this must-read. Some executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections from coast to coast. Several of the 35 states that rely on lethal injection are either scrambling to find sodium thiopental ? an anesthetic that renders the condemned inmate unconscious ? or considering using another drug. But both routes are strewn with legal or ethical roadblocks. The shortage delayed an Oklahoma execution last month and led Kentucky's governor to postpone the signing of death warrants for two inmates. Arizona is trying to get its hands on the drug in time for its next execution, in late October...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).