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| Shortage Causes Ohio To Change Lethal Drug |
| By toledoblade.com |
| Published: 01/26/2011 |
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COLUMBUS -- The state of Ohio Tuesday said it will change the drug it uses for executions after the sole domestic producer of its current drug ceased production. The first condemned inmate to face the new drug, the fast-acting barbiturate pentobarbital, on March 10 would be Johnnie Baston, 36, convicted in the 1994 robbery slaying of Chong Hoon Mah, a 53-year-old Korean immigrant shopkeeper in downtown Toledo. Last week, Illinois-based Hospira, the only U.S. maker of the drug, dropped its plans to resume production of Ohio's current execution drug, sodium thiopental, in a plant in Italy for fear of running into legal problems there for producing a drug used elsewhere for executions. Italy does not have the death penalty. The drug was previously manufactured at Hospira's North Carolina plant, but production there was suspended after the company struggled to find raw materials. Read More. |
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