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A 2017 study found that four U.S. states that allow capital punishment are stockpiling lethal-injection drugs that are in short supply and may be needed for life-saving medical procedures elsewhere. [109]
Many states have since bought lethal injection drugs from foreign suppliers, and most states have made it a criminal offense to reveal the identities of drug suppliers or execution team members. [ 229 ] [ 234 ] In November 2015, California adopted regulations allowing the state to use its own public compounding pharmacies to make the chemicals.
The state’s revised lethal injection process will allow for a central line to access a prisoner’s body to deliver a lethal dose of chemicals through syringes when a regular IV, also known as ...
The only execution by lethal injection that failed to kill the condemned prisoner in the United States occurred on September 15, 2009, in Ohio, when executioners attempted and then aborted the execution of Romell Broom, leading to the implementation of a one-drug method.
For 40 years, lethal injection has been the standard for capital punishment in the U.S. And while overall U.S. support for executions has dropped, some states are doubling down on capital ...
It's difficult to determine which other states allow the use of central lines for lethal injections, in part because many death penalty states keep the IV process and parts of their standard operating polices on executions hidden from public view, said Robin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Such treatment, including during the lethal injection of a prisoner, could be grounds for a legal challenge that the use of potentially expired execution drugs violates an inmate’s rights ...
As of 2017, the method is being used by 31 U.S. states, as well as by their federal government and military. [3] Lethal injection was also adopted as a method of execution by Guatemala in 1996, China in 1997, the Philippines in 1999, Thailand in 2003, Taiwan in 2005, Vietnam in 2013, [4] the Maldives in 2014 [5] and Nigeria in 2015. [6]