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Additional News Coverage of Ohio Drug Switch

By Steve Hall

The latest version of the AP report is, "Ohio to use assisted-suicide drug in executions," written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins.  It's via the Washington Post. States across the country have scrambled to find supplies of sodium thiopental after Hospira Inc., of Lake Forest, Ill., the drug's lone U.S. manufacturer, stopped producing it more than a year ago. Hospira, which produced it for medical purposes and not for executions, announced Friday it would not resume production after authorities in Italy refused to allow its production if the company couldn't guarantee it would not be used for capital punishment. Hospira said its plant in Italy was the only viable facility where it could be manufactured. Arizona, Arkansas, California and Tennessee are among states that found a supply of sodium thiopental in England, but that source dried up after the British government banned the drug's export for use in executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).