Should physicians be banned from assisting in a lethal injection execution, or lose professional certification for doing so?

NEW YORK, Jan.

An American company that is the only US producer of a drug used in lethal injections announced Friday it had decided to permanently stop its production because it was unable to guarantee it would not be used in executions in the United States.

Capital punishment sentences across the country are being postponed due to a shortage of a drug used to carry out the executions.

THE inquest into the death of a grandmother who was given a lethal injection by a student nurse has closed. Edna Alker, 91, of Orrell, died after receiving a fatal dose of potassium chloride by trainee nurse Rebecca Riley.