Editing Lethal injection (section)

===Complications of executions and cessation of supply of lethal injection drugs===
By early 2014, a number of botched executions involving lethal injection, and a rising shortage of suitable drugs, had some U.S. states reconsidering lethal injection as a form of execution. [[Tennessee]], which had previously offered inmates a choice between lethal injection and the [[electric chair]], passed a law in May 2014 which gave the state the option to use the electric chair if lethal injection drugs were either unavailable or declared unconstitutional.<ref name="wapo20140523">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/05/23/tennessee-has-long-had-the-electric-chair-but-now-its-going-to-be-available-for-more-executions/ |title=Tennessee has long had the electric chair, but now it's going to be available for more executions |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |first=Mark |last=Berman |date=May 23, 2014 |access-date=May 23, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523183617/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/05/23/tennessee-has-long-had-the-electric-chair-but-now-its-going-to-be-available-for-more-executions/ |archive-date=May 23, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> At the same time, [[Wyoming]] and [[Utah]] were considering the use of [[execution by firing squad]] in addition to other existing execution methods.<ref name="cbs20140522">{{cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/firing-squad-mulled-as-execution-backup-to-lethal-injection-in-wyoming/ |title=Will Wyoming turn to firing squads for executions? |work=CBS News |agency=Associated Press |first=Ben |last=Neary |date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=May 23, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522195536/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/firing-squad-mulled-as-execution-backup-to-lethal-injection-in-wyoming/ |archive-date=May 22, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

In 2016, [[Pfizer]] joined over 20 American and European pharmaceutical manufacturers that had previously blocked the sale of their drugs for use in lethal injections, effectively closing the open market for [[Food and Drug Administration|FDA]]-approved manufacturers for any potential lethal execution drug.<ref name="NYT-Pfizer">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html |title=Pfizer Blocks the Use of Its Drugs in Executions |work=[[The New York Times]] |last=Eckholm |first=Erik |date=May 13, 2016 |access-date=May 16, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516183722/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/pfizer-execution-drugs-lethal-injection.html |archive-date=May 16, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In the [[execution of Carey Dean Moore]] on August 14, 2018, the State of Nebraska used a novel drug cocktail comprising [[diazepam]], [[fentanyl]], [[cisatracurium]], and [[potassium chloride]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.omaha.com/news/crime/nebraska-has-executed-convicted-killer-carey-dean-moore-in-its/article_83cf2f84-9894-5de8-b58f-8140dcfd11f1.html|title='A monumental day': Nebraska executes Carey Dean Moore in state's first lethal injection|first=Joe Duggan, Paul Hammel, Emily Nitcher and Martha Stoddard World-Herald|last=Bureau|date=August 15, 2018 }}</ref> over the strong objections of the German pharmaceutical company [[Fresenius Kabi]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45185687|title=Nebraska first to use fentanyl in execution|date=August 14, 2018|work=BBC News}}</ref>

[[Potassium acetate]] had been incorrectly used in place of [[potassium chloride]] in [[Oklahoma]] in January 2015 for the execution of [[Charles Frederick Warner]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Oklahoma used wrong drug in Charles Warner's execution, autopsy report says|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/oklahoma-wrong-drug-execution-charles-warner}}</ref> In August 2017, the State of [[Florida]] first used the drug in the execution of [[Mark Asay|Mark James Asay]] using a combination of [[etomidate]], [[rocuronium bromide]], and potassium acetate as part of a new protocol.
<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-florida-execution-asay-20170824-story.html|title=Florida executes convicted killer Mark Asay using new drug|author=Jason Dearon|publisher=Sun Sentinel}}</ref>