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Indiana use of new execution drug draws opposition

In this photo provided by the Indiana State Prison is Michael Overstreet,  who is expected to be the next inmate executed in Indiana.  AP PHOTO/INDIANA STATE PRISON

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The maker of a drug Indiana wants to use for its first execution since 2009 says the anesthetic, which has never been used in lethal injections, isn’t approved for that purpose and that it only recently…