Gov. Nixon received health concerns over execution drug

Monday, October 28, 2013

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Health-care workers, medical groups and even a few patients pressured Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon before he halted what would have been the first execution with the anesthetic propofol.

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