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Extended Coverage of the Hospira Announcement

By Steve Hall

I'm going to break coverage into three posts.  First, the national coverage; second, Texas coverage; and, other state coverage. The New York Times report is, "States Face Shortage of Key Lethal Injection Drug."  It's written by Erik Echholm and Katie Zezima. The sole American manufacturer of an anesthetic widely used in lethal injections said Friday that it would no longer produce the drug, a move likely to delay more executions and force states to adopt new drug combinations. The manufacturer, Hospira Inc., of Lake Forest, Ill., had originally planned to resume production of the drug, sodium thiopental, this winter at a plant in Italy, giving state corrections departments hope that the scarcity that began last fall would ease...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).