article_snippet.sent: That spotlight includes a January Supreme Court decision to stay the execution for three death row inmates in Oklahoma.
article_snippet.sent: This was prompted by Clayton Lockett's execution by lethal injection nearly one year ago in which Clayton Lockett's writhed on a gurney for 43 minutes before Clayton Lockett's died from a heart attack.
article_snippet.sent: In Georgia last month, Clayton Lockett's execution by lethal injection nearly one year ago in which he writhed on a gurney for 43 minutes before he died from a heart attack was postponed as a precaution when Clayton Lockett's execution by lethal injection nearly one year ago in which he writhed on a gurney for 43 minutes before he died from a heart attack checked the medications and discovered the medications looked cloudy.
article_snippet.sent: Thirty-two sates allow capital punishment, and lethal injection is still the most common method.
article_snippet.sent: Last month, Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert signed a law reinstating firing squads as a method of execution in cases in which lethal injection medications are not available.
article_snippet.sent: Of the eight inmates currently on death row in Utah, three opted for the new choice of death by firing squad.
article_snippet.sent: Pentobarbital is the preferred drug used for lethal injection.
article_snippet.sent: In Texas, the department of criminal justice told CNN in March the department of criminal justice are running out of the department of criminal justice supply.
article_snippet.sent: In July 2011, Lundbeck Inc., the manufacturer of pentobarbital, decided to no longer provide the drug to prisons for use in capital punishment.
article_snippet.sent: The companies that manufacture the products traditionally used in executions almost unilaterally decided to stop selling to institutions that used the products for that purpose, so states then turned to compounded preparations, Spinnler said.