Texas Will Change Its Lethal Injection Protocol
Texas will join a handful of states that use a single drug in lethal injections, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced Tuesday.
"Implementing the change in protocol at this time will ensure that the agency is able to fulfill its statutory responsibility for all executions currently scheduled," TDCJ spokesman Jason Clark said in an email.
For Yokamon Hearn's scheduled execution on July 18, officials plan to administer a lethal dose of pentobarbital instead of the three-drug cocktail that has been used since Texas reinstated the death penalty in 1982. Clark said the decision to change the protocol came ...
Comments (2)
Joshua Scott
There is no monopoly manufacturer for Life Without Parole. (Unless you want to count the state.)
Ellen Sweets
Well, shucks. let's just keep shopping around until we find some civilized country that does support our penchant for state-=sponsored murder. And if we can't find one, maybe we can turn to some of our buddies, like China, which tends -- without even trying -- to manufacture stuff that can kill you anyway. Oy!