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"Controversy Follows New Execution Drug"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new piece in the New York Times reporting on a new lawsuit filed following the decision by Texas authorities to utilize a new drug in the state's lethal injection protocol.  Here are excerpts: A decision to change one of the drugs Texas uses for lethal injections in its busy execution chamber has sparked anew the controversy over the state?s death penalty. Two inmates filed suit this week against the state corrections department over its closed-door decision-making process. Lawyers for the inmates also called for a federal investigation into whether the state had illegally obtained death penalty drugs used in nearly all of the state?s previous 466 executions since 1982. And the sole American manufacturer of the drug that Texas plans to use urged state officials not to use it in executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).