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Drugs Used to Sedate a Prisoner
Almost all of the states that carried out executions Used the anesthetic sodium Theopental but the only FDA approved producer of that drug in the US stopped making it in 2010. So states trying to execute people were scrambling again Nebraska and South Dakota bought sodium theopental from a drug company in India Once that company realized what they wanted the drugs for they stopped selling the drug to the US. Reporters learned that Oklahoma was using petty cash Literally tens of thousands of dollars from accounts with no oversight to buy Imitation drugs from compounding pharmacies.
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