A third option, he said, would entail going back to sodiumthiopental.
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Last year, the UK banned the sale to the US of sodiumthiopental.
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All but one of the 35 US states that carry out executions used sodiumthiopental.
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Before 2011, several states used the anesthetic sodiumthiopental as part of their lethal injections.
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But sodiumthiopental is now extremely difficult to purchase.
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We have compared propofol and sodiumthiopental in two groups of 20 women undergoing curettage.
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The only manufacturer of sodiumthiopental in the United States, Hospira Inc, halted production last year.
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The sodiumthiopental, administered first, is an anesthetic.
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The most common lethal injection drug was the anaesthetic sodiumthiopental, used with pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
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The eight include pentobarbital and sodiumthiopental -the two drugs on which almost all American executions currently depend.
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However, two states use sodiumthiopental alone as it can kill on its own if used in high dosage.
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The fast-acting anesthetic was nearly three times as potent as sodiumthiopental, the anesthetic administered to inmates during lethal injection.
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Other states use a massive dose of barbiturate alone -but in either case sodiumthiopental or pentobarbiatal are essential to the process.
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Controversy over Tennessee's three-drug lethal injections and similar protocols in other states follow the withdrawal of the drug sodiumthiopental by its US manufacturer.
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Drug manufacturer Hospira has cut off supplies of sodiumthiopental, which had been used as a sedative in a three-drug cocktail for U.S. executions.
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The administrative change was allegedly "due to the unavailability of sodiumthiopental," one of the three injections usually used to kill inmates.