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What's Next for Texas Lethal Injection Procedure

By Steve Hall

"Execution Set for April, but State Out of Key Drug," is the title of Brandi Grissom's Texas Tribune report. Judges have set the dates for four more executions this year, and all of them scheduled to take place after the state's supply of sodium thiopental expires. The next execution is scheduled to take place April 5 ? less than a month from now ? but the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has not yet decided which drug it will use to replace sodium thiopental, one of three used in the state's execution protocol. "We haven't made any decision, but we are working on possibly replacing it with another drug," said TDCJ spokeswoman Michelle Lyons. And: Lyons would not say which alternative drugs TDCJ officials are considering, but she said they are looking to examples of what other states have done and trying to find a method that doesn't rely on overseas drug producers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 10, 2011 (boomark / email).