Texas Switches Death Penalty Cocktail
News Wednesday, July 11th, 2012DALLAS (AP) _ Texas prison officials have changed their procedure for administering executions to a one-drug method.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement to The Associated Press Tuesday that it would use pentobarbital in executions instead of a three-drug combination. Department spokesman Jason Clark says the agency changed its protocol July 9 because its stock of one of the three drugs expired.
Pentobarbital is a sedative that is typically the first drug administered. The department says it has run out of the second drug, pancuronium bromide.
TDCJ officials said in May that it had enough doses of pentobarbital for as many as 23 executions.
Last year, officials used pentobarbital to replace sodium thiopental, which became unavailable when its European supplier stopped making it under pressure from death penalty opponents.
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Posted by Chace Murphy
on Jul 11 2012. Filed under News.
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The state of Texas needs to just do away with the freaking death penalty. The state of Texas nor its executioners are NOT GOD and needs to quit trying to play God because in the end GOD is gonna judge them for Murder. Live by the ten commandments not by your rules. Who is guilty of murdering innocent men, uh that would be the state of Texas. How is it that you put people in prison, death row for the same crime you have committed? ONE JUDGE=ONE JURY=GOD