The one company that makes the drug used in the execution of prisoners through lethal injection, is no longer making the drug. The company was going to move the operation to Italy, but Italy objected to the drug's use in lethal injection. There is no death penalty in Italy.
In Oklahoma phenobarbital was used in a recent execution. Phenobarbital is used in putting animals to sleep. We had a dog that had seizures and the seizures were kept in check with phenobarbital.
I am more and more leaning towards opposing the death penalty. I understand revenge all too well and there may very well be exceptions. America does not seem to be fertile ground for no death penalty. We like executions.
Live Science: Company Ceases Manufacture of Death Penalty Drug
Hospira Pharmaceuticals, the only American manufacturer of a drug used in U.S. executions, will cease making that drug, the company announced today (Friday)
The cease in manufacturing is likely to cause more difficulties for states trying to execute prisoners. All of California's supply of sodium thiopental expired Oct. 1. Arizona, Kentucky, Ohio and Oklahoma have also experienced sodium thiopental shortages. On Dec. 16, Oklahoma inmate John David Duty became the first person in the United States whose execution involved pentobarbital, a drug usually used to euthanize animals.
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