Sentences with phrase «uses lethal injection»

The county currently uses lethal injection about 65 % of the time compared to 71 % statewide.

A 2009 study has established the cost of using lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, than CO gas chambers.

Unwanted dogs, if no one will adopt them, will eventually be killed by the shelter using a lethal injection or toxic gasses, to make room for dogs people will want to adopt.

94 % of Georgia's public shelters use lethal injection to euthanize animals.

As the 2009 AHA study indicates, it should only cost about $ 2.29 per animal to use lethal injection.

Officials at Iredell County Animal Services say they will use lethal injection to euthanize animals until the vendor determines the gas chamber is safe.

S.B. 354 would require all shelters to use lethal injection as the means of euthanasia.

So, why isn't the shelter using lethal injection instead of a CO gas chamber?

Not exact matches

«The use of the medicines in lethal injections runs counter to the manufacturers» mission to save and enhance patients» lives, and carries with it not only a public - health risk, but also reputational, fiscal and legal risks,» wrote the companies in a friend of the court filing.

Then, of course, there is also the distinction between an action done with the purpose of killing someone, like a lethal injection, and a decision to let nature take its course without using the extraordinary means of modern medicine that are available to forestall the inevitable.

Jim Craig, an attorney who is suing the state against lethal injection use, told the Associated Press the introduction of new execution methods would be challenged in court.

In doing so, FDA deferred to law enforcement in the use of substances for lethal injection, which is consistent with the agency's long - standing policy.

Most recently, Arizona inmate Jeffrey Landrigan was executed Tuesday night only after a delay caused by a legal battle over the source and quality of the sodium thiopental used as part of the lethal injection.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer also used our studies as part of his research for Baze v. Rees in 2008, which upheld an earlier ruling in Kentucky that the state's approach to administering lethal injections does not violate the «cruel and unusual punishments» ban promised in the Eighth Amendment.

Why is sodium thiopental used as part of a lethal injection execution?

Regardless of whether Landrigan's legal team was simply using the drug shortage as stalling tactic, their legal maneuvering brings to the fore a contentious dispute over the science (or some would say lack thereof) behind lethal injection executions in the U.S.. For more than two decades, it has been argued that the FDA should be required to certify the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to carry out executions (as it does for drugs used to euthanize animals).

It wanted to carry out the death sentences before its stockpile of one of three drugs used in lethal injection, called midazolam, reached its expiry date on 30 April.

Unable to maintain the façade and desperately unhappy about the pair's move to flyover country care for Nick's sick mother, Amy uses the media and consumer culture to teach Nick a lesson — one that could culminate in a lethal injection.

The expert ended up prompting a back - and - forth between Supreme Court justices, who narrowly upheld use of a lethal injection drug.

While lethal injection uses barbiturates, anti epileptics and some respiratory relaxers.

Under the proposed legislation lethal injection using sodium pentobarbital or a derivative, a procedure known as EBI, would be the only allowed method of euthanasia for animals in North Carolina's public shelters.

Certainly proper use of lethal injection requires training.

For small mammals, such as mice, where an injection could be too distressing or difficult, some veterinarians use lethal doses of anesthetic gases like chloroform in an anesthetic chamber.

They each spoke from experience about the suffering and danger caused by use of the gas chambers and the much safer, humane method of euthanasia, lethal injection.

The committee was provided a 2009 cost study showing in North Carolina euthanasia by lethal injection is less expensive than using gas chambers.

Update Mar. 5, 2009: The North Carolina House Agriculture Committee heard testimony yesterday about Davie's Law which would end the use of gas chambers on shelter animals and ban heartstick and mandate safe lethal injection for euthanasia of dogs and cats.

Also, if shelters must have available lethal injections for animals under 16 weeks of age, why not use it for all animals?

Last year Perdue wrote a letter to the state Department of Agriculture, urging the adoption of rules requiring use of lethal injection as the only method of euthanasia in animal shelters.

«I don't think anyone would argue that managing those cats through impoundment, followed by lethal injection, is a good use of tax dollars,» Wolf, the Vox Felina blogger, said.

The issue of concern to those organizations was to advance lethal injection as a more humane method of killing than the decompression chambers still widely used.

FVHA humanely euthanizes by lethal injection using sodium phenobarbital.

Instead, the commission unanimously approved a motion by Commissioner Fred McClure that recognizes lethal injection as the preferred method of euthanasia that should be used whenever possible.

Wright's suggestion, for example, that complaint - based impoundment followed by lethal injection is an efficient use of scarce tax dollars is demonstrably false.

Euthanasia by injection (EBI), using a lethal dose of a barbituate, emerged in the 1960s; today, all major animal welfare organizations, including The HSUS, National Animal Care & Control Association and Association of Shelter Veterinarians, as well as the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), recognize it as the most humane form of euthanasia.

The county will continue to use CO gas chambers for these animals, but Gaston County Commissioner Allan Fraley has said if he doesn't see an increase in the numbers of animals euthanized by lethal injection, he will ask the commission to prohibit use of the CO gas chamber altogether.

In fact, the county points to the veterinary costs for lethal injection as a reason to use CO gas chambers!

Davie's Law, a bill introduced in 2009, would have mandated use of lethal intravenous or intraperitoneal injection of sodium pentobarbital or similar substance.

In recent years, executions have become even more difficult to carry out because drug companies have protested the use of their products in lethal injections.

Meanwhile, the AP reports that in Florida, state Rep. Brad Drake introduced a bill this week that would end the use of lethal injections in Florida executions, and instead require those on death row to choose between electrocution or a firing squad.

The decision follows questions over the lethal injection cocktail to be used in the execution of Scott Raymond Dozier.

Hopefully, any of the balanced scholarly looks will (a) acknowledge that these lethal injection cases in federal courts should be dealt with swiftly, as the Supreme Court has said that when stays in capital cases are issued, the issues need to be resolved expeditiously, (b) acknowledge that some of the legal reasoning in some of the cases lacks, e.g., Fogel's constitutionalization of the wattage of a light bulb or Frost's use of cases where a party has engaged in sharp dealings to analyze Ohio's «fault» in filing an interlocutory appeal and (c) examine whether the burden of proof has been subtly shifted from the prisoner to the state in these cases.

In one case, a state court halted an execution scheduled for Thursday night, while a state judge separately barred the use of a lethal injection drug, potentially blocking all of the planned executions.

Well, the Texas — the original reason was because during earlier in the day, around 10:00 a.m., the US Supreme Court decided to take a case out of Kentucky that would have determined the constitutionality of lethal injection as an execution method, the three - drug cocktail used in executions in Kentucky and here in the US.

The stay of execution will stand until February 2008 when the US Supreme Court will decide if the use of a lethal injection is a «cruel or inhumane» punishment.