3 States Schedule Lethal Injection Executions Within a Day
We already know what can go wrong. And they refuse to stop.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Convicted killers in three states were facing executions within a 24-hour period starting Tuesday night, marking the first lethal injections in the nation since a botched execution in Oklahoma seven weeks ago.
All the states planning lethal injections — Florida, Georgia and Missouri — refuse to say where they get their drugs, or if they are tested. Lawyers for the condemned inmates have challenged the secretive process used by some states to obtain lethal injection drugs from unidentified, loosely regulated compounding pharmacies.
Nine executions nationwide have been stayed or postponed since late April, when Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Clayton Lockett after noting that the lethal injection drugs weren’t being administered into his vein properly. Lockett’s punishment was halted and he died of a heart attack several minutes later.
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