Missouri opts for untested drug for executions

<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) — The same pain-killer that caused a overdose genocide of cocktail star Michael Jackson is now a drug of choice for executions in Missouri, causing a stir among critics who doubt how a state can pledge a drug untested for lethal injection wont means pain and pang for a condemned.
Last week a Missouri Department of Corrections announced it was switching from a longstanding three-drug routine to use of a singular drug, propofol. Missouri would be a initial state ever to use propofol as an execution drug.
This is very, really concerning with a drug that we dont know, and saying a problems of a one-drug method, pronounced Kathleen Holmes of Missourians for Alternatives to a Death Penalty.
Until recently, a 33 states with a death penalty used a probably matching three-drug process: Sodium thiopental was administered to put a invalid to sleep, afterwards dual other drugs stopped a heart and lungs. But makers of sodium thiopental have stopped offered it for use in exec...