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Nebraska's Lethal Injection Drugs

By Steve Hall

Today's Lincoln Journal Star reports, "Prison officials respond to lawmakers' request for information on lethal injection drug."  It's written by Kevin O'Hanlon. The state Department of Correctional Services has responded to a letter from three state senators asking for details about the department's recent purchase from an Indian company of one of the drugs used in Nebraska's lethal-injection protocol. The department recently bought such a large quantity of a drug used to kill death-row inmates that it now has enough to carry out 166 executions -- even though it has just 12 men on death row. The state paid $2,056 to Kayem Pharmaceutical Pvt. Ltd. for 500 grams of sodium thiopental, the minimum purchase required by the company, according to corrections officials...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).