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Drug shortage delays US executions

By BBC News  
   September 29, 2010

Several of the 35 states that use lethal injections are now hunting for fresh sources of the drug, which is used to render people unconscious.

The sole US manufacturer of the drug says new batches of sodium thiopental will not be ready before early 2011.

Meanwhile, nine states have planned 17 executions before the end of January.

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