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Texas Attorney Speaks Out on Lethal Injection Drug Switch

By Steve Hall

"Statement from Attorney for Cleve Foster in Response to Change in Texas Execution Protocol," is from Maurie Levin, Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Law Capital Punishment Center. "The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has known since at least early January that its supply of sodium thiopental was set to expire on March 1, 2011,  and that the company from which they had always obtained the drug had stopped production. Yet it is only today, less than three weeks shy of Mr. Foster?s scheduled execution, that TDCJ has announced a decision to change the protocol by which they will execute Mr. Foster.  The timing of the decision and disclosure raises serious concerns about the haste with which they are seeking to implement this new process, and a lack of transparency by state officials...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).