Convict in South Dakota wants to pick drug for his execution

Convict in South Dakota wants to pick drug for his executionA convict scheduled to be executed next month in South Dakota for a 1992 fatal stabbing is taking issue with the state's choice of the drug that will take his life. Charles Russell Rhines, 63, has asked a judge to force the state to follow the law on lethal injections at the time he was sentenced to death in 1993, when a protocol of an ultra-short-acting lethal drug and a chemical paralytic were used. The state has said it intends to use pentobarbital, commonly used to euthanize animals and a drug that has been used in recent executions in South Dakota and in Georgia, Missouri and Texas.




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