States' Use Of Execution Drugs Varies Widely

The Associated Press, San Diego Union-Tribune Nation
Fri, 07/25/2014 - 11:17am

States' use of execution drugs varies widely

The prolonged execution of an Arizona death row inmate with a new, two-drug combo has highlighted the patchwork quilt approach that states now take with lethal drugs, with types, combinations and dosages varying widely. A question and answer look at how the disparity came about and why, following more than three decades in which all death penalty states used the exact same three-drug mixture.

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