State obtains new supply of lethal injection drug (way to go, California)

Mercury News ^ | Oct 6, 2010 | Paul Elias

[doug from upland]

State obtains new supply of lethal injection drug

SAN FRANCISCO—Prison officials obtained a drug essential to the lethal injection process the day after canceling California's first execution in nearly five years partly due to a shortage of that very drug, a court filing stated Wednesday.

The state Attorney General's office told U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel it obtained 12 grams of sodium thiopental last Thursday, the same day Albert Greenwood Brown was to be executed. But the execution was called off the day before when the Attorney General's office said a state Supreme Court ruling and its apparent drug shortage made it impossible to execute Brown on Thursday. The government lawyers cited the state high court ruling in dropping its federal appeals of Fogel's Sept. 27 ruling stopping the execution of Brown.

[Oldexpat]

The Keystone Cops do sparky. The rope is very humane compared to being a prop in a comedy skit.

[Walts Ice Pick]

12 grams of sodium thiopental

Where did the State get that stuff? Can you order it from one of those internet pharmacies?

Not that I would want any, right now.

[dalereed]

Drag him out in the yard and shoot him!

Guarnteed to work.

[CtBigPat]

Reusable
Earth friendly natural fiber (hemp?)
Biodegradable
Whats the problem?

[MonicaG]

Hook it up!

[cashless]

California ordering drugs for lethal injections of convicted murderers and rapists is the same as a Jew or Muslim buying bacon: It'll be a cold day in hell before either is used. The man they want to execute has been on death row over 25 years. Ammunition is as effective, quicker and cheaper. Not wanting the murderer to suffer is an outrage. I personally want them to suffer and remember the suffering of their victims as they split hell wide open. But our effeminate nation has no gonads to just kill the killers. Try them on Monday, sentence them on Tuesday, dispatch them on Wednesday. Capital punishment is no deterrent if not administered swiftly and publicized. You cut out a cancer so it doesn't spread, you don't give it the opportunity to infect the rest of the body.

[OrangeHoof]

Who are they trying to fool? There are no men left in California left to execute a killer, just whiny little girls and posers. The killers are lucky they weren’t in Texas. We have no problem slipping them the needle. Heck, we see it as our civic duty, sorta like pest control.

Most states north of Oklahoma are too cowardly to actually kill a prisoner anymore. Why, somebody from the ACLU might disagree with it.

[Del Rapier]

Justice delayed is still justice.

[BuffaloJack]

Just stop feeding the creep. Democrats already believe that withholding foor and water from terminally ill patients is humane. Why not apply the same reasoning to death row inmates.