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Lethal Injection Updates

By Steve Hall

"Inside the evolving market for lethal injection drugs," is the title of Rina Palta's report for public radio station KALW-FM. Next week, the Oklahoma?s department of corrections will go to court with a request?one that prison operators around the country will no doubt be watching. Oklahoma officials will be asking the court for permission to use a new execution drug: one that?s generally used to euthanize animals. Oklahoma?s not the only one that?s been forced to think outside the box when it comes to finding drugs to use in carrying out lethal injections. A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental, a drug commonly used in the lethal injection process, has states scrambling to find alternative sources for their execution supplies...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).