Prisons typically use the drug sodium thiopental as an anesthetic during lethal injections. But a DOC spokesman says although 14 people sit on death row, the state's supply has run out.
The execution of a convicted killer from Mishawaka has been put on hold along with all executions in the state of Indiana after the Department of Corrections ran out of a drug used during lethal injections, according to our reporting partners at the News Dispatch.
Prisons typically use the drug sodium thiopental as an anesthetic during lethal injections.
But a DOC spokesman says although 14 people sit on death row, the state's supply has run out.
Indiana is not alone.
According to a study, at least 16 of the 34 states with the death penalty have run out of the anesthetic.
The shortage comes after some Italian companies stopped making the drug because of legal restrictions there.
The state did not say whether it is considering other alternatives, but all executions, including that of Wayne Kubsch, who was convicted of killing his family in 1998, have been put on hold for now.
Source: WNDU, April 19, 2011
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