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"Drug expiration date pushes CA execution to brink"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new AP article which seeks to detail the latest execution news from California.  Here are highlights:  Five years ago, the planned execution of Michael Morales became so chaotic and confused that California prison officials canceled it two hours before he was to die.  Now, the state's first lethal injection attempt since then is running dangerously close to another execution night mess. The problem with Morales was a failure to find medical professionals to assist with the execution.  This time, Albert Greenwood Brown is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Thursday ? just three hours before the Friday expiration date of the state's entire supply of sodium thiopental, a sedative used to knock out inmates before they are fatally injected with two other drugs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).