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| Missouri switches to new execution drug |
| By lasvegassun.com |
| Published: 10/30/2013 |
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The Missouri Department of Corrections said Tuesday it is switching to a new lethal injection drug, less than two weeks after the governor halted executions until it could find a replacement for the anesthetic propofol. The Corrections Department said in a news release that it will use the sedative pentobarbital. The Death Penalty Information Center said 13 states use the drug for executions. The execution of Joseph Franklin on Nov. 20 is still on, the news release stated. Franklin was convicted of killing Gerald Gordon outside a St. Louis-area synagogue in 1977. Read More. |
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