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Lethal injection drug supply continuing to be an issue in new year

By Douglas A. Berman

My local Columbus Dispatch has this article this morning about the continuing struggles for death penalty states having a supply of lethal injection drugs.  The piece is headlined "Supply of lethal drug is unsure; State has enough to put prisoner to death Feb. 17," and here are excerpts: With Ohio's first execution of 2011 scheduled in about six weeks, uncertainty continues over the international availability of the sole drug used in the state's lethal-injection protocol. In a pending Arizona murder case, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has indicated it will use "enforcement discretion" in allowing states to import sodium thiopental, a drug used in executions. Arizona bought the drug from England but through a "broker," The Arizona Republic reported...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).