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Lethal Injection Controversies

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom writes, "Controversy Follows New Execution Drug," for today's New York Times. 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. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced on March 16 that it would use pentobarbital in its three-drug cocktail to carry out lethal injections...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).