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Holder Responds to State Attorneys General

By Steve Hall

"Federal prisons run out of key execution drug," is an AP report available from numerous outlets.  An condensed version with Texas reporting is at the Austin American-Statesman. The federal government has told state attorneys general that it has run out of a key execution drug and is exploring alternatives, dashing states' hopes of obtaining a federal supply of the drug. Concerns about the shortage were highlighted Thursday when Ohio executed a man with another drug never before used alone in an execution. States wrote U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in January asking for help obtaining sodium thiopental. The anesthetic is used by virtually all death penalty states, but supplies ran short when its U.S. manufacturer stopped production...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).