Ohio Now Sending Its Death Row Inmates To “A Farm Upstate”

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readJan 25, 2011

“Ohio says it’s switching its lethal injection drug to an anesthetic commonly used to euthanize pets as a shortage of the drug normally used for executions has worsened. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says the state will use a single, powerful dose of pentobarbital. It’s a common anesthetic used in surgeries and by veterinarians.”

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