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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

There is news from Alabama, Montana, and the UK this morning. "Ala has drug needed for Hallford execution," is the title of Bob Johnson's AP report via Louisiana's Lafourche Parish Daily Comet. State prison officials said Monday they have an adequate supply of the drug needed for the scheduled execution Thursday of Phillip Hallford, condemned to die for the 1987 shooting death of his pregnant daughter's boyfriend in Dale County. Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said the state has enough sodium thiopental to carry out the lethal injection, despite a national shortage that has delayed some executions in other states. Arizona had to go overseas to obtain the drug for an execution last week. But Corbett said the Alabama Department of Corrections "has a sufficient supply of unexpired, FDA-approved sodium thiopental to carry out the execution as ordered by the Alabama Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).