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Lethal Injection

By Steve Hall

Tony Rizzo's Kansas City Star report, "States reluctant to switch from three-drug 'cocktail' for executions," is being distributed by McClatchy News Service.  It appears in today's Boston Herald and other papers.After a failed execution in September, the state of Ohio may have revolutionized capital punishment in America when it put a different inmate to death last month. It executed Kenneth Biros on Dec. 8 with a single drug, marking the first time in the United States that a lethal injection was not done with a three-drug ?cocktail? that has been the subject of numerous legal challenges in recent years.Missouri and Kansas prison officials say they have no immediate plans to change their protocols, which employ the three-drug method...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).