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Lethal Injection Drug Shortage a Factor in Nebraska

By Steve Hall

The North Platte Telegraph today reports, "Heineman: HHS needs more time."  It's written by Mark Young. In other legislative news, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning told the Telegraph last month that the state is prepared to move forward with executions now that the legislature has approved lethal injection as its sole means of execution after the State Supreme Court ruled last year that the electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment.The delay in filing a death warrant to execute Cary Dean Moore, who planned the robbery and killing of two Omaha taxi drivers in 1979, is a nationwide shortage of the third chemical used in lethal injection executions - sodium thiopental, which is the chemical that eliminates any potential for pain...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).