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Lots of notable new headlines on lethal injection practice and politics

By Douglas A. Berman

The morning's papers are brimming with interesting stories about lethal injection practices: From ABC News here, "Jared Loughner Researched Pain of Lethal Injection Before Alleged Attack: From the AP here, "Drug maker asks Ohio, Oklahoma not to use sedative for putting inmates to death" From The (UK) Independent here, "Execution using UK drugs 'may have gone wrong'" From the Lincoln Journal Star here, "Nebraska bought enough lethal injection drug for 166 executions" All these stories have interesting facets, though I find uniquely intriguing the reality that Nebraska now has a huge lethal injection drug supply even though it has only 12 murderers on its death row and has conducted only three executions in the last 40 years. Perhaps Nebraska will try to turn a profit by selling some of its supply to more active death penalty states states like Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 27, 2011 (boomark / email).