Missouri misled on execution drugs used
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Source: Baltimore Sun
Missouri officials have not been truthful about the drugs and methods used in recent executions, misleading lawyers for death row inmates and the public, according to a St. Louis Public Radio investigation broadcast on Wednesday.
The report, based on court records and other documents, showed that while Missouri officials have said publicly and in court records that they only use one drug, pentobarbital, to put prisoners to death, the state has also been using a controversial sedative called midazolam in every execution since November 2013.
In all nine executions since then, Missouri's execution team has injected inmates set to die with significant amounts of the sedative before using the pentobarbital, it said. The report was broadcast and published online.
The use of midazolam is under scrutiny nationwide after inmates in botched executions in Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona were given the drug and took longer than is typical to die, showing signs of distress.
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But this knuckle dragging state of Misery that live in would and did release an inmate, only after being acquitted for murder five ago years for the killing of two teenagers in 1998 
And the results of that release came to this.
South KC murder spree could bring death penalty
“Help at address, shotgun.”
That furtive telephoned plea for help on Tuesday afternoon summoned Kansas City police to a scene of carnage where they found three people shot dead and two others severely beaten.
But on Wednesday, barely 24 hours and an “all-hands-on-deck” police investigation later, authorities announced that they had charged a 34-year-old former convict in the crime.
Brandon B. Howell, acquitted five years ago in the killings of two teenagers, now faces a potential death sentence for Tuesday’s spasm of violence against three separate families in a quiet south Kansas City cul-de-sac.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article1439467.html#storylink=cpy
