Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Oklahoma Allwed to Substitute Drugs for Execution

Pavatt v. Jones, 2010 WL 5072132 (12/14/10) (unpub'd) - The capital petitioners could not show Oklahoma's substitution of pentobarbitol for the hard-to-acquire sodium thiopental as part of the lethal-injection regimen had a high enough risk of causing intense pain to warrant an injunction.