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Expired drugs led to delay in scheduled execution
by The Associated Press
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ATLANTA — Records show that one of the drugs that were to be used in Warren Hill's scheduled execution in Georgia last month had expired two weeks before he was scheduled to die.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the Department of Corrections tried to change its procedures from three drugs to one - a barbiturate - in an effort to keep the execution on track.

However, the Georgia Supreme Court issued a stay less than two hours before Hill was to be executed for a 1990 murder.

The Department of Corrections said in a statement Thursday that the unavailability of pancuronium bromide was a factor in the decision to change Georgia's execution protocol, but it was not an "overriding concern."

Hill's execution is now on hold at least until November.
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Enforcer
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August 07, 2012
What is the worse thing that could happen using expired drugs, death. Bring back the rope.
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Enforcer
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August 07, 2012
These executions take to long in the state of Georgia. These executions should be handled in a more timely manner. Seven years should be the longest to wait.
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