Judge declines to delay South Dakota execution

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge has denied a state inmate’s request to delay his execution over the drug to be used.
Charles Rhines argues that pentobarbital does not act quickly enough to comply with state law.
But Circuit Judge Jon Sogn rejected that argument Thursday, writing in a 23-page order that when the drug is used in lethal doses it operates “virtually the same” as other drugs that Rhines had cited. And Sogn wrote that it may even work more quickly