USA - Alabama. Alabama has run out of Pentobarbital.

Alabama has run out of Pentobarbital. Clay Crenshaw, who heads capital litigation for the state attorney general's office, says Alabama currently does not have access to pentobarbital, the 1st drug in the state's 3-drug execution process. He says there are 16 death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals and are awaiting execution, but the state has no pentobarbital to use. The Alabama Department of Corrections, seeking to open up new suppliers, is pushing for legislation this session that would keep execution drug sources secret.