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Mississippi set to execute man for murder of four people
Reuters/Yahoo ^ | 5/10/2011

Posted on 05/10/2011 6:54:32 AM PDT by markomalley

Mississippi is set to execute later on Tuesday a man convicted in 1999 of slaying four people, the first inmate in the state to be put to death using a new drug as part of the lethal injection.

Benny Joe Stevens is scheduled to be executed shortly after 6 p.m. local time on Tuesday, according to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.

He will be executed using the drug pentobarbital, a sedative often used to euthanize animals, because of a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental. Several states have switched to pentobarbital because of the shortage.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: deathrow; execution; lethalinjection; pentobarbital; sodiumthiopental
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To: Repeal The 17th

The usual course of extreme action on these situations....not endorsed...is to kill ex wife and husband in law....not the kids too
Odd


21 posted on 05/10/2011 3:54:48 PM PDT by wardaddy (ok...Trump beating on Obama---Sarah----Michelle.....any of them are ok for now---tain't picky)
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To: WKB

That sounds almost like the assisted suicide cocktail that we have in Oregon, but I can’t be sure.

It will be like going to sleep...and he doesn’t deserve such good treatment.


22 posted on 05/10/2011 11:44:10 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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