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Texas Coverage of the Hospira Decision

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom posts "Texas Seeking Execution Drug," at the Texas Tribune. Texas officials have enough execution drugs to carry out the death sentences for two inmates scheduled for lethal injection in February. But they will have to find another sodium thiopental supplier or a different drug to use after March, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons. "We will have to explore some other options," Lyons said. And: Lyons said Texas' supply of sodium thiopental ? used to anesthetize a person before lethal drugs are injected ? expires in March. The next execution after that, she said, isn't scheduled until May. The agency, she said, will have time to search for another manufacturer of sodium thiopental or to find an alternative drug...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).