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Two US states plan to use untried drugs to execute prisoners

The New Year may bring a new era in state executions in the US – and fresh controversy to the debate over the death penalty. As stocks of drugs for lethal injection have been exhausted in several states, authorities are looking for alternative methods to carry out the capital punishment sentences on its death row inmates… and now Nebraska and Nevada are turning to untried techniques.