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An Update on Lethal Injection Drugs

By Steve Hall

"Replacement execution drug ample, but has issues," is the title of Greg Bluestin's AP report.  It's via the Midland Reporter-Telegram, and the Washington Post. On paper, the drug that states are increasingly counting on to replace a sedative used in executions shares several drawbacks with the one that's no longer readily available. Both were intended for other uses. Each was or is made by only one company in the U.S. And the substitute drug will have to run the same legal gauntlet that the first drug survived. There is one key difference, however: Experts say there is plenty of the replacement, pentobarbital, and it's not likely the manufacturer will abruptly halt production and touch off the kind of supply crisis that struck the first drug's maker...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).