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The Virginian Pilot on Execution Drugs

By Steve Hall

"The problem with medicine used to kill," is the editorial in today's Virginian Pilot. As The Associated Press reported last week, Georgia obtained sodium thiopental from a distributor that shares a building with a driving school in a gritty London neighborhood. The British government refuses to allow drugs to be exported for use in capital punishment. DEA agents subsequently seized the supply over concerns that the state circumvented laws regulating importation of controlled substances. Why is this an issue when the mission - killing a person condemned to die - is achieved? Because if the sedative used is insufficient, the two other drugs administered after the anesthesia will cause excruciating pain in paralyzing the muscles and triggering a fatal heart seizure...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).