Tuesday, September 28, 2010

2890...Sodium Thiopental Needed

Seriously, could you hook a brother up with some sodium thiopental?

May be not a brother but a state svp.

Daily Mail reports that a shortage of sodium thiopental, which is S in Sleepy Time that leads to the D in Death in lethal injections, is causing some states to delay executions. Oklahoma, Cali, Az and Ky to mention a few. "The sole U.S. manufacturer, Hospira Inc. of Lake Forest, Illinois, has blamed the shortage on unspecified problems with its raw-material suppliers and said new batches of sodium thiopental will not be available until January at the earliest."

There is another point of view posited by "Jonathan Groner, an Ohio State University surgeon and death penalty opponent who researches the issue, speculated the real reason for the unavailability of sodium thiopental is that its medical uses 'have shrunk to the point that the company doesn't want to make a drug that has no use but to kill people'."

Personally I think that they should go back to drawing and quartering the condemned. If it was good enough for Brave Heart it is good enough for them.

WFDS

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