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Did TDCJ Obtain Execution Drugs Illegally

By Steve Hall

Mike Ward posts, "Complaint: Texas illegally acquiring lethal drugs," at the Austin American-Statesman. In a new challenge to Texas? execution procedure, two condemned convicts complained to federal and state today alleging that state prison officials have been illegally obtaining the prescription drugs used in executions. In a complaint delivered to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Cleve Foster and Humberto Leal contended that a DEA registration number used to purchase the three execution drugs is registered to a non-existent hospital ? in possible violation of state and federal law. A prescription written by a doctor is needed to obtain prescription drugs under federal and state law...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).