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S.C. Struggles to Obtain Lethal Injection Drugs
By free-times.com- Eva Moore
Published: 04/01/2015

Executions are essentially on hold in South Carolina because the state can’t obtain two of the three drugs it needs to administer lethal injections.

However, in April the U.S. Supreme Court plans to review whether midazolam, a drug used to execute prisoners in other states, violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. If the court upholds the drug’s use, it could offer South Carolina an option for future executions.

There are 44 people on death row in South Carolina. The last person executed in South Carolina was Jeffrey Motts, in 2011.

Inmates sentenced to death in South Carolina can choose between the electric chair and a lethal injection. But in 2013, the state ran out of its supply of the sedative pentobarbital, the first of the three drugs used in the injection. The state had switched to pentobarbital a few years earlier after it ran into problems obtaining sodium thiopental, a similar sedative.

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