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Missouri Digital News
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Mo. Digital News
Missouri Digital News
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Mo. Digital News
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Missouri Digital News
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Missouri Digital News
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Missouri Digital News
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The Missouri Department of Corrections is running out of a vital drug used in executions. Sherman Fabes has more from Jefferson City. |
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Wrap: Missouri is one of nine states backed into a corner because of a shortage of sodium thiopental.
Public Information Officer for The Department of Corrections Angie Morfeld said the shortage of the chemical will not effect the scheduled execution of Roderick Nunley on October 20th.
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| Description: "We are equipped to proceed with our schdeuled execution in October, using the protocol that has been approved by the federal court." | |
There is only one execution planned between now and when the current batch of the chemical is set to expire in January.
Sodium thiopental is the anesthetic Missouri uses to render an inmate unconscious before lethally injecting the inmate on death row.
The Department of Corrections will not release the exact amount of the chemical that they have left.
From Jefferson City, I'm Sherman Fabes
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Missouri cannot plan any more executions between now and January because of a shortage in an important chemical. Sherman Fabes has more from Jefferson City. |
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Wrap: Roderick Nunley is scheduled to be executed on October 20th for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a 15 year-old girl in 1989.
He will be the last person of the year to be executed in the state of Missouri because of the shortage of sodium thiopental.
Sodium thiopental is the anesthetic Missouri uses to render an inmate unconscious before lethally injecting the inmate on death row.
Missouri has only one execution planned before the chemical expires in January.
However, eight other states may have to reschedule executions because of the shortage of the anesthetic.
The Department of Corrections will not release the exact amount of the chemical that they have left.
From Jefferson City, I'm Sherman Fabes