Mississippi Supreme Court ruling on lethal drugs

The Mississippi Supreme Court blocks a death row inmate’s appeal over the state’s planned use of a lethal injection drug.
In an order Thursday, justices said Thomas Loden’s 2016 appeal over the sedative midazolam is moot because legislators this year rewrote a state law on death penalty drugs. The old law required an ultra-short acting barbiturate or other similar drug as part of a three drug lethal injection mix. Loden argued midazolam didn’t fit that definition.
The new law requires an appropriate anesthetic or sedative. Several states have struggled to obtain certain drugs since 2010 as manufactures refuse to sell them for executions.