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Texas Executioners Playing Fast and Furious to Obtain Lethal Drugs
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2025, page 24
Filed under:
Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
Location:
Texas.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has been buying a drug used to execute condemned prisoners from a compounding pharmacy with a history of safety violations, according to an investigation reported by NPR News on July 10, 2024.
After major pharmaceutical companies refused to participate in executions, …
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