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Lethal Injection Rumblings From Other States

By Steve Hall

In Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reports, "Lack of lethal-injection drug means Florida must develop new execution procedure." It's by Anthony Colarossi.  The article notes that the state currently has no scheduled exeuctions. On Friday, Lake Forest, Ill.-based Hospira Inc. announced in a statement that it "will exit the sodium thiopental market and no longer attempt to resume production of its product, Pentothal." That company was the sole American producer of the drug. "We do use that drug in our lethal-injection process," state Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said. "We are exploring other options. At this point, we're looking at making changes to the procedure. If we change one drug, we might have to change another drug...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).