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The Broken Machinery of Death

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a New York Times editorial.  It appeared in the Saturday paper. The Drug Enforcement Administration seized Georgia?s sodium thiopental supply this week, after a complaint that the sedative used in the three-drug protocol for execution by lethal injection was imported illegally. The American producer of sodium thiopental stopped making it and the complaint says the purchase of it from an unlicensed British supplier calls into question ?the legality and integrity? of how Georgia administers injections. Texas's supply is running out and it has now announced that, following the lead of Oklahoma, it will switch to the use of pentobarbital as the sedative in a three-drug protocol for executions. Ohio has switched to a one-drug protocol using pentobarbital as the sole drug...continue to full post

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