Va. has stockpile of drug used in lethal injection

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Larry Traylor, a corrections spokesman, said: “We don’t discuss our execution protocols.”

Death-penalty critics say the Virginia Department of Corrections has a stockpile of an anesthesia drug used in executions that the Food and Drug Administration lists as being in short supply at hospitals, where it’s used during surgeries.

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