Executions put on hold in U.S. because of national shortage of lethal injection drug
Executions put on hold in U.S. because of national shortage of lethal injection drug Executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections across the country. Several of the 35 states that rely on lethal injection are either scrambling to find sodium thiopental - an anaesthetic that renders the condemned inmate unconscious - or considering using another drug. Postponed: Seventeen executions in the U.S. face being delayed after a national shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections Arizona is trying to get its hands on the drug in time for its next scheduled execution next month and California said the shortage will stop executions on Friday - three hours after an inmate is scheduled to die - when its stock expires. 'As such, we do not support the use of any of our products in capital punishment procedures.# Jonathan Groner, an Ohio State University surgeon and death penalty opponent who researches the issue, speculated the real reason for the unavailability of sodium thiopental is that its medical uses 'have shrunk to the point that the company doesn't want to make a drug that has no use but to kill people'.
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