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Additional Coverage of Texas Lethal Drug Purchases

By Steve Hall

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The letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, an appendix of exhibits, and the letter to DPS are available in Adobe .pdf format. Today's Dallas Morning News reports, "Lawyers accuse Texas of illegally purchasing execution drugs." It's written by Matthew Huisman. In letters to the Texas Department of Public Safety and Attorney General Eric Holder, attorneys Maurie Levin and Sandra Babcock accuse the state of providing false information to a Drug Enforcement Administration database used to monitor the sale and use of controlled substances. According to Levin and Babcock, the agency has been purchasing execution drugs using a registration number assigned to the Huntsville Unit Hospital, which closed in 1983. Registration numbers must be renewed every three years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).