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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

I'll be linking to continued news coverage on the FDA lawsuit as well as items from California, Missouri, Nevada, Tennessee, Utah. ABC News has posted, "States Depend on Unapproved Foreign Drugs for Executions."  It's by Ariane De Vogue. Because of a U.S. shortage of sodium thiopental, which is the first of three drugs used for most lethal-injection executions, some states have resorted to importing the drug from foreign sources. And: The drug was developed by Abbott Laboratories in the 1930s and produced until about 2004, when Abbott spun off a new company called Hospira Inc. Hospira announced in January 2010 that it would permanently discontinue production. As states run out of the drug, they have struggled with how to carry out lethal injections...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).