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TDCJ offers bogus argument to conceal info on lethal injection drug

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is making an incredibly disingenuous, bogus argument to try to conceal whether they have sufficient quantities of a drug used in lethal injections to continue Texas' historic pace on executions, reports the Dallas News Crime Blog:Patricia Fleming, assistant general counsel for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said in a letter to Attorney General Greg Abbott that prison employees are under "a substantial threat of physical harm." She refers to the "inherently volatile" nature of executions as a reason to withhold information about the amount of drugs available in Texas for lethal injections.The use of various drugs for executions has been an issue for death penalty opponents for years. In recent months some states have postponed executions because of a shortage...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 23, 2010 (boomark / email).