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Florida to execute inmate using unproven drug
The state of Florida will this morning execute its first death row inmate in nearly two years, using a lethal injection drug that has not yet been used in the United States.
The execution of Mark Asay is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. local time (8am AEST) and has caused uproar from human rights groups and even the drug's creator.
The 53-year-old white inmate was sentenced to death in 1988 in the racially motivated double murder a year earlier of a black man, Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell in Jacksonville, Florida, who has been identified as white and Hispanic.
Asay fatally shot Booker, an African American, after making racist remarks, according to prosecutors.
He killed his other victim, McDowell, who was apparently dressed as a woman, after making a deal to pay him for sex.
Why the execution has the state divided
Etomidate is the first of three drugs administered in Florida's new execution cocktail. It is replacing midazolam, which has been harder to acquire after many drug companies began refusing to provide it for executions.
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http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/...ing-unproven-drug-mark-asay?ocid=Social-9News
The state of Florida will this morning execute its first death row inmate in nearly two years, using a lethal injection drug that has not yet been used in the United States.
The execution of Mark Asay is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. local time (8am AEST) and has caused uproar from human rights groups and even the drug's creator.
The 53-year-old white inmate was sentenced to death in 1988 in the racially motivated double murder a year earlier of a black man, Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell in Jacksonville, Florida, who has been identified as white and Hispanic.
Asay fatally shot Booker, an African American, after making racist remarks, according to prosecutors.
He killed his other victim, McDowell, who was apparently dressed as a woman, after making a deal to pay him for sex.
Why the execution has the state divided
Etomidate is the first of three drugs administered in Florida's new execution cocktail. It is replacing midazolam, which has been harder to acquire after many drug companies began refusing to provide it for executions.
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http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/...ing-unproven-drug-mark-asay?ocid=Social-9News