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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina on Friday executed a man who strangled his cellmate, using a new combination of lethal injection drugs for the first time.
Jeffrey Motts, 36, was given the sedative pentobarbital instead of sodium thiopental as part of the lethal three-drug combination because federal agents seized the state’s supply as part of a nationwide investigation into whether prisons obtained the drugs legally from England.
Motts was sentenced to death for killing his cellmate at a state prison in Greenville County in 2005.
Denver Post wire services
