MEXICO CITY — There will be no more drug executions in Mexico, no more levantones (kidnappings with intent to murder) or encajuelados (dead bodies in car trunks, or cajuelas).
"Drug executions are particularly problematic," Coogle said.
Drug executions in Iran have spiked significantly in recent years, making the UN funding all the more alarming.
To find out more about how the UN might be contributing to drug executions, and about the failure of drugs policies in general, we spoke to Dainius Pūras.
The country's drug executions have now been put on hold as the government focuses on boosting Indonesia's sluggish economic growth.
But because of the shift to a single drug, the court said, "any challenge to Ohio's three-drug execution protocol is now moot".
Last-minute appeals for Mr. Landrigan, convicted of murder in 1990, focused on the origins of one of the drugs used in the state's three-drug execution protocol.
But drugmakers were reluctant to sell those drugs to prisons and corrections departments, so in 2012 Missouri announced a new one-drug execution protocol using propofol.
New details about the drug Texas uses for its single-drug execution method came to light ahead of a trial that will be the first in the state to examine the secretive procedure before a federal judge in open court.
In a one-page order issued Tuesday night explaining the 5-to-4 vote to vacate Judge Silver's temporary restraining order, the Supreme Court stated that Judge Silver's reasoning was flawed, because the case affirming the constitutionality of the three-drug execution method, Baze v. Rees, had a high standard of proof that an execution method would cause harm.
But in a brief filed before Judge Fogel on Wednesday, lawyers for the attorney general said that a single-drug execution would be possible by increasing the dosage of sodium thiopental to 5 grams, from the 3 grams used in the three-drug method.
