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Cruel, Unusual and Bizarre

By Steve Hall

That's the title of St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Kevin Horrigan's latest.  The subtitle is, "How will Missouri "lethally inject" if it runs out of a lethal drug?" To understand the bizarre argument that a condemned man named Roderick Nunley is making in the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis, you must first understand that there's a nationwide shortage of the drug sodium thiopental. You must further understand that a major use of thiopental in the United States is in lethal injection, the primary method of execution in all 35 states that have capital punishment laws and by the federal government. Thiopental has been used in 1,059 executions since 1982. In 1,050 of those cases, it was the first of three drugs administered in sequence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 22, 2010 (boomark / email).