Oklahoma asks to delay executions after getting wrong drug
McALESTER, Okla. — After a botched execution last year led to new procedures and a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oklahoma’s drug combination, the state asked a court Thursday to halt its executions while it reviews why a wrong drug was sent for an inmate’s lethal injection. Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Oklahoma needed time to sort out why its Department of Corrections received a shipment of potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride for Richard Glossip’s execution that was to occur Wednesday. State officials said they learned Wednesday that Oklahoma’s drug supplier had shipped it potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride, the third of three drugs administered under the Department of Corrections’ guidelines. “Minutes before the execution is supposed to start, that’s when they realize they don’t have the right drugs?” Corrections Director Robert Patton said the prison system does not have state or federal authority to keep the drugs on site, so it arranges for shipments to arrive on the days that executions occur.
Executions put on hold in U.S. because of national shortage of lethal injection drug
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