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Published September 27, 2010, 12:00 AM

Preparing for an execution


This November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. How states put condemned inmates to death with drugs could be changing as a shortage of the anesthetic used to render prisoners unconscious extends into 2011, jeopardizing some executions. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
Read the article: Some executions held up by shortage of drug