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Hospira to Stop Manufacturing Sodium Thiopental

By Steve Hall

Nathan Koppel posts, "Hospira to Stop Making Lethal-Injection Drug," at the Wall Street Journal. The sole U.S. maker of a key execution drug has decided to permanently halt production of the drug, which could lead many states to face delay in carrying out the death penalty. The decision made on Friday by Hospira Inc. caps months of controversy over thiopental sodium, an anesthetic that has long been used by states as a part of a cocktail of drugs administered during a lethal injection. Hospira's decision puts a wrench in the nation's capital-punishment system. States can attempt to use another anesthetic in place of thiopental, but such a switch likely would need to be approved by courts and possibly state legislators...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).