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| New Execution Method To Be Used On OK Cellmate Killer |
| By msnbc.msn.com |
| Published: 12/16/2010 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A man on Oklahoma's death row for the 2001 slaying of his cellmate is believed to be the first U.S. inmate set to be executed using a sedative commonly used to euthanize animals. John David Duty is set to die at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A federal appeals court earlier this week upheld a judge's ruling that allows the state to substitute pentobarbital for sodium thiopental, an anesthetic normally used in the state's lethal injection formula. A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental led Oklahoma to alter its three-drug cocktail. Attorneys for Duty, 58, and two other death-row inmates challenged the state's decision to use pentobarbital, arguing during a November federal court hearing that it had not been done before in executions and could be inhumane. Read More. |
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"a sedative commonly used to euthanize animals". Sounds entirely appropriate!