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More on State Appeal to Feds for Lethal Injection Drugs

By Steve Hall

CNN reports, "13 states ask for federal help on execution drug shortage."  It's by Michael Martinez. The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing a request from 13 states on how to acquire an execution drug no longer made in the United States and whether the federal government would share its supplies, a federal spokeswoman said Wednesday. The sole U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic used as part of the lethal three-drug cocktail, announced last month that it would stop making the drug because the producer never intended it to be used to kill people. The U.S. shortage of sodium thiopental, also used as an anesthetic for brief surgical procedures, may force states to postpone executions and has forced them to look outside the country for a supply or come up with alternatives...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).