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More Lethal Injection News From the States

By Steve Hall

ABC News reports, "Texas Only Has Enough Lethal Injection Drugs to Execute 2 of 317 Death Row Inmates,"  It's by Russell Goldman. Texas has 317 convicted murderers on death row, but because of a company's decision last week to stop making the key drug for lethal injections, Texas only has enough of the potion to execute two. Consequently, Texas and 32 other states will be watching closely as Ohio prepares to execute Johnnie Baston. They will be watching not only to see how well the substitute drug works, but how entangling the legal battle is going to be. And: Texas, which has the busiest death row in the country, expects to run out of its supply of lethal drugs in March. "The supply expires in March, so we'll have to look to some sort of alternative," said Texas Department of Corrections spokesman Jason Clarke...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 27, 2011 (boomark / email).