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Texas Lethal Injection News Coverage

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom has an updated Texas Tribune post, "Texas Decides on Substitute Execution Drug." The timing ? less than three weeks from the next scheduled execution ? and the TDCJ's decision-making process drew quick criticism. "Prison officials are not medical professionals," Maurie Levin, a professor at the University of Texas Capital Punishment Center, wrote in a press statement. "They cannot be trusted to change a medical procedure in the dark of night without public scrutiny, especially when there is such a minimal track record on the use of pentobarbital in lethal injections." Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School and a national expert on death penalty issues, said the Texas decision was not about making executions more humane but was meant to make the process more feasible...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).