Sole Producer of Lethal Injection Drug Quits

The capital punishment system faces a serious obstacle: the only US producer of an anesthetic used in lethal injection has decided to stop making it, the Wall Street Journal reports. Thiopental sodium is made exclusively by Hospira, an Illinois company. It had already suspended production in 2009 because of manufacturing…

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Sole Producer of Lethal Injection Drug Quits

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