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Hearings Set for Lethal Injection Challenges in Oklahoma, Tennessee

By Steve Hall

The Guardian reports, "Oklahoma seeks to execute convicts with veterinary drug."  It's written by Chris McGreal in Washington.  Here's an extended excerpt: Oklahoma is to ask the courts for permission to execute condemned men with a drug commonly used to put down animals because of a national shortage of an anaesthetic crucial for lethal injections. The move follows legal action by death penalty opponents in Britain to prevent export to the US of the anaesthetic, sodium thiopental, after a supply manufactured in the UK was used to put to death a convicted murderer in Arizona last month. Oklahoma's attorney general is to ask a court next week to be allowed to use pentobarbital, a drug used by veterinarians to put down animals, in the execution of a death row inmate, John Duty, in December...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).