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News Coverage of Texas Lethal Injection Litigation

By Steve Hall

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The petition in Foster v. TDCJ is available in Adobe .pdf format. Brandi Grissom posts, "Death Row Inmates Sue Over Lethal Injection Drug," at the Texas Tribune. TDCJ decided on March 16 that it would use pentobarbital in executions. Texas and other states were forced to find a substitute for sodium thiopental when the only American producer of it, Illinois-based Hospira Inc., announced in January it would stop selling the drug. Hospira had planned to manufacture the drug in an Italian plant, but authorities in that country wanted a guarantee that the drug would not be used in executions. Texas officials decided to follow the lead of Oklahoma and use pentobarbital in the lethal injection protocol. TDCJ spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said this morning that officials are still reviewing the inmates' case...continue to full post

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