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Where Texas Obtains Its Lethal Injection Drugs

By Steve Hall

The next three posts all relate to lethal injection news.  First, Texas. "Ohio company supplies state with lethal drugs," is the title of Mike Ward's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. Texas, which runs the nation's busiest prison death chamber, buys the three lethal drugs it uses to execute its condemned convicts from an Ohio pharmaceutical supplier, officials disclosed Thursday. The revelation came after state prison officials had for months fought the release of the information, in unsuccessful arguments to Attorney General Greg Abbott and to a Travis County state district judge. At several points, prison officials had argued that the safety of prison employees and the employees of the supplier might be jeopardized if the supplier's name was made public...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).