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| AL out of lethal injection drug pentobarbital |
| By sunherald.com- Kim Chandler |
| Published: 03/26/2014 |
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama can't execute death row inmates because the state has run out of the critical first drug given at the start of each lethal injection, authorities said Tuesday. Clay Crenshaw, of the Alabama attorney general's office, said the state currently does not have access to pentobarbital, the first drug in its three-drug execution process. There are 16 death row inmates who have exhausted appeals and are awaiting execution, but the state Department of Corrections has no pentobarbital needed to carry out the death sentence, he said. "Pentobarbital is still manufactured and sold and it may be one day that DOC can get access to it, but right now we don't have access," Crenshaw said. Read More. |
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