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Nebraska Proposes Lethal Injection Protocol; Public Hearing Set

By Steve Hall

"3-drug combo is execution cocktail," is the title of Martha Stoddard's report in today's Omaha World-Herald. Nebraska corrections officials propose to execute condemned prisoners with a three-drug combination.The drugs would be the same used in all other states that carry out the death penalty by lethal injection ? an anesthetic, a paralyzing agent and a drug to stop the prisoner's heart.Death penalty critics attack the drugs, saying they can cause prisoners to suffer and that veterinarians have rejected using them to euthanize animals.But the three-drug protocol is outlined in draft rules and regulations for Nebraska executions officials released Monday.The proposed rules would carry out the state's new lethal injection law...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).