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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. [110]
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. [ 237 ] [ 242 ] In November 2015, California adopted regulations allowing the state to use its own public compounding pharmacies to make the chemicals.
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.
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 ...
Since then, 36 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection in the state. But South Carolina was unable to carry out a lethal injection after 2011 because of a lack of the necessary drugs.
In 2021, the electric chair became the default method in the state when there is no lethal injection drugs available – with firing-squad as an alternative option. The state began setting ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty Monday, directing the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.
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]