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By Steve Hall

"A Death Serum Mystery," is the title of Ben Crair's report for Daily Beast.  Extended excerpts from this  must-read: On Thursday, Donald Ray Wackerly II ate a stuffed-crust veggie pizza, a Dr Pepper, a coconut cream pie, and a chocolate shake before going to the death chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. In 1998, Wackerly was convicted of the murder of a Laotian immigrant, and after 12 years on death row, he had finally exhausted his appeals. In the death chamber, prison wardens strapped him to the gurney and administered the drugs as he repeated a Buddhist mantra. Eventually he went silent. At 6:12 p.m., Wackerly was pronounced dead. Though his case is now closed, doubts remain about whether the state of Oklahoma obeyed federal laws in obtaining one of the drugs needed to kill him...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).