The Latest: Nevada switches drug to be used in execution

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:57 pm CDT, Tuesday, July 3, 2018

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on Nevada's plan for its first execution since 2006 (all times local):

2:35 p.m.

Nevada prison officials plan to substitute one sedative for another, and use two other drugs never before used in executions when the state conducts its first execution in 12 years. The lethal injection is set for July 11.

A death penalty protocol released Tuesday calls for using midazolam (mid-AHZ'-oh-lam) to sedate inmate Scott Raymond Dozier, then fentanyl — a powerful synthetic opioid — followed by the muscle paralyzing drug cisatracurium (sis-at-rah-KYUR'-ee-um).

The paralytic was the focus of a court challenge that the state Supreme Court rejected in May on procedural grounds.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-Nevada-switches-drug-to-be-used-in-13047764.php

[Jake Stern]

1. WTF is is with these states and their blood lust?

Gotta get their killing on.