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| Plenty Of Lethal Drug For AL To Carry Out Execution |
| By dailycomet.com |
| Published: 11/02/2010 |
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State prison officials said Monday they have an adequate supply of the drug needed for the scheduled execution Thursday of Phillip Hallford, condemned to die for the 1987 shooting death of his pregnant daughter's boyfriend in Dale County. Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said the state has enough sodium thiopental to carry out the lethal injection, despite a national shortage that has delayed some executions in other states. Arizona had to go overseas to obtain the drug for an execution last week. But Corbett said the Alabama Department of Corrections "has a sufficient supply of unexpired, FDA-approved sodium thiopental to carry out the execution as ordered by the Alabama Supreme Court." The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way last month for the execution of the 63-year-old Hallford when it refused to hear his challenge of the procedure Alabama prisons use to execute by lethal injection. Read More. |
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