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| Pruitt says other drugs would allow executions |
| By muskogeephoenix.com |
| Published: 01/30/2015 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — While the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of a sedative Oklahoma uses in lethal injections, Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Thursday he will push to resume executions if alternative drugs can be found. Pruitt said if prison officials can obtain doses of barbiturates that the state has used to execute inmates in the past, such as sodium thiopental or pentobarbital, he will ask the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set new execution dates. “If those drugs become available, we didn’t want any impediment to the ability to carry out executions,” Pruitt said, “and the court acknowledged that and allowed us to do so.” Read More. |
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