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Article: Execution drug disputed
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- April 5, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly all lethal injection executions have
occurred in states where veterinarians are not allowed to use the
same method to euthanize animals, according to a new study.
One of the three drugs used in executions, the one that paralyzes
the condemned inmate, has been banned from use in animal euthanasia
by at least 42 states, said the study author Ty Alper, a death
penalty opponent and associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic
at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law.
Those states include the five leaders in lethal injections -
Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, Missouri and North Carolina - and account
for 907 of the 929 executions that have been carried out by ...