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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

There is news from California and Ohio. "State obtains new supply of lethal injection drug," is the title of Paul Elias' AP report.  It's via the Silicon Valley Mercury News, which seems to have the most recently updated filing. Prison officials obtained a drug essential to the lethal injection process the day after canceling California's first execution in nearly five years partly due to a shortage of that very drug, a court filing stated Wednesday.The state Attorney General's office told U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel it obtained 12 grams of sodium thiopental last Thursday, the same day Albert Greenwood Brown was to be executed. But the execution was called off the day before when the Attorney General's office said a state Supreme Court ruling and its apparent drug shortage made it impossible to execute Brown on Thursday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).