USA - Colorado. Colorado adds Pentobarbital for executions.

Colorado adds alternate drug for executions. Colorado's instructions for putting prisoners to death by lethal injection have been revised to include an alternate drug, underscoring problems states face in carrying out executions, the American Civil Liberties Union said today. The ACLU released a copy of the state Department of Corrections execution protocol, which it obtained after filing a lawsuit against the department. The protocol included a list of 3 drugs to be used for executions, along with an alternate for 1 of the drugs, sodium pentothal. The protocol said pentobarbital can be used instead.