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Arizona Gets Lethal Injection Drug Overseas

Arizona Gets Lethal Injection Drug Overseas

Arizona State is taking unusual measures to fix the effect that
they are having due to a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug. To
increase their supplies, Arizona is looking towards other countries for the
drug.

This option to do so, not only raises questions about the
thoroughness and effectiveness of the drug, but it also allows for the inmates
to be able to challenge the use of the drug that may or may not be inspected by
the U.S Federal inspectors.

Arizona officials have said that they got their lethal injection
drug, sodium thiopental, from Britain. They have done so to continue the rate
of executions; since spring 2010, the executions have been at a slower rate.

Currently there are 35 states in the United States which
legalized executions by lethal injections. The drug used in the lethal injections,
which is from the U.S, is FDA-approved; there are no other FDA-approved drugs
from overseas currently being manufactured.  Many prosecutors have said that since the
delay of executions, the public has lost faith in the criminal justice system