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Texas & Arkansas Stocked with Execution Drugs

By Steve Hall

Today's Huntsville Item reports, "Texas well stocked with lethal injection drugs."  It combines staff reporting with the national AP report noted yesterday. Despite a nationwide shortage of one of a trio of drugs used in the lethal injection of condemned inmates, Texas is well stocked with the drug, sodium thiopental, according to Texas prison officials in Huntsville.Some executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of the drug ? an anesthetic that in Texas renders the condemned inmate unconscious before other drugs in the lethal cocktail are administered.?Texas has an ample supply of the drug in reserve so we have not been affected by the nationwide shortage,? said Michelle Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).