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Arizona's Lethal Injection - Supplier Identified?

By Steve Hall

There is extensive coverage of the legal scrum leading up to Arizona's Tuesday night execution, as well as British press coverage of the possible source of sodium thiopental. "High Court Split Paves Way for Arizona Execution," is the title of Tony Mauro's post today at National Law Journal. The eleventh-hour court dispute stemmed in part from the shortage of sodium thiopental, an ingredient in the "cocktail" of drugs typically used in lethal injections in the United States. The sole U.S. manufacturer has stopped production, but Arizona obtained the drug from a foreign source. The state resisted requests for details about the sourcing by attorneys for Landrigan, citing a state law that protects the privacy of individuals and entities involved in executions...continue to full post

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