Bloodthirsty states are desperate for sodium thiopental—part of the lethal injection cocktail, and may be getting it illegally. Georgia allegedly bought some from an "unlicensed British company that operates from the back of a London driving school." Nice.

Under pressure from Italy, Hospira—the U.S. company that produces a drug used in lethal injections, sodium thiopental—is going to stop producing it, forcing states to look for other drugs to kill people with (like this one). [WaPo]