South Carolina secures drug for lethal injections after 12-year pause
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#6EX54)
State general assembly passed a shield law in May allowing it to keep secret the suppliers of drugs
South Carolina has obtained a drug needed to carry out lethal injections and is ready to perform the state's first execution in over 12 years, officials announced on Tuesday.
The pause on executions wasn't official. The state's supply of the three drugs it used to kill inmates expired and drug companies refused to sell them any more because they could be publicly identified.
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