Several of the 17 prisoners condemned to be put to death in the US by the end of january are likely to recieve a reprieve after a pharmacuetical company said it had run out of anaesthetic widely used as part of the lethal injection.
Hospira Illinois said it had suspended production of Pentathol because it could not obtain a sufficient quantity of the drugs active ingredient . The delay could last till march.
Pentothol consists of sodium tiopental, a barbitrate used as an anaesthetic in hospital operations.
The drug is essentially made as a meens of saving lives. The company that makes it have never approved of its use in executions.
'Hospira does not support its use in this procedure,'
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