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Arkansas Supplied Execution Drug to Oklahoma, Tennessee

By Steve Hall

"Drug used in recent Oklahoma execution was provided by Arkansas, dose also provided to Tenn.," is the AP report via KFSM-TV. One of the drugs used in the recent execution of an Oklahoma death row inmate was provided by Arkansas. Arkansas has extra supplies of sodium thiopental ? which renders people unconscious ? after two executions were stayed because of objections to changes in the lethal-injection law. The state provided the drug to Oklahoma for the Oct. 14 execution of Donald Ray Wackerly. An Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Freedom of Information Act request with the Arkansas Department of Correction produced e-mails showing Tennessee has also received a dose of the drug. A Tennessee Department of Correction spokesman declined comment on where the drug was acquired...continue to full post

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