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TDCJ secured death-house drugs under long-expired license

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Though from a public-policy perspective I could care less by what method executions are carried out, one has to be impressed with the investigation that allowed death penalty opponents to make this argument, as Jordan Smith reported in the Austin Chronicle:According to lawyers for condemned inmate Cleve Foster, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been illegally purchasing lethal injection drugs. According to the attorneys, Maurie Levin of UT School of Law, and Sandra Babcock of Northwestern University School of Law, the state's prison agency has been purchasing controlled substances ? including drugs used for lethal injections ? under the Drug Enforcement Administration registration certificate assigned to an entity that hasn't existed for nearly 30 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).