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More Reporting on Drug Shortage

By Steve Hall

"Shortage of Widely Used Anesthetics Is Delaying Executions in Some States," is the title of Kevin Sack's report in today's New York Times. Several states have postponed executions and others may soon do so because of the scarcity of thiopental sodium, a barbiturate that is central to the lethal injection process in most of the 35 states with the death penalty. Some states face the looming expiration of their only doses and are scrambling to obtain usable vials from other states as execution dates approach. Others, by proposing alternate drugs that are not part of standard protocols, have given defendants new grounds to seek delays in court. In California on Wednesday, the attorney general?s office said it was abandoning what would have been the state?s first execution in more than four years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).