Death penalty: Florida may be pondering ‘novel’ lethal injection change

Megan McCracken quoted by Sun Sentinel, Dec. 5, 2016

The use of etomidate in an execution —- if that is what Florida is planning to do —- is “brand new and wholly novel,” McCracken said. “It has not been used to our knowledge in an execution in any state and it’s never appeared on an execution protocol in any state.”