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More Ohio News - State to Switch Lethal Injection Drug

By Steve Hall

AP reports, "Ohio to use surgical drug in lethal injections."  It's via Google News. Ohio is set to become the first state to use a surgical sedative as its sole means of executing condemned inmates, a switch made as the shortage of the drug normally used for executions has worsened. Beginning in March, the state execution team will use a single, powerful dose of pentobarbital, a drug sometimes used to induce surgical comas, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced Tuesday. The drug, which is chemically related to a version of pentobarbital used to euthanize pets, replaces sodium thiopental, which was already scarce when its only U.S. manufacturer announced last week it would no longer produce it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).