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October 29, 2013

Ohio To Use Untested Drug Combination in Execution 
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Ohio is planning on using an unprecedented drug combination for an
execution after a Danish company banned its sedative from involvement in
the death penalty. Ohio officials say they will be forced to use
midazolam and hydromorphone on a death row prisoner next month. The
combination has never been tried in the United States. Ohio says it has
run out of pentobarbital, made by the Danish firm Lundbeck, and now
banned from U.S. prisons that carry out capital punishment.

 

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