South Dakota inmate seeks delay to choose own execution drug

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Attorneys for a South Dakota prisoner facing execution next week are arguing he should be able to choose the drug to be used in his lethal injection.
Charles Russell Rhines is to be executed with pentobarbital, which several states have used to administer the death penalty. But Craig Stevens, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Oklahoma, testified on Rhines’ behalf Tuesday that it’s not an “ultra-short-acting” drug.
The state ci