Texas obtains new supply of pentobarbital for execution use
Source: Associated Press
Texas obtains new supply of pentobarbital for execution use
By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press | May 14, 2015 | Updated: May 14, 2015 3:29pm
HOUSTON (AP) Texas prison officials say they've obtained a new supply of drugs that will allow them to carry out the two executions currently scheduled.
The execution earlier this week of Derrick Dewayne Charles left the Texas Department of Criminal Justice with enough pentobarbital to accommodate only the scheduled June 3 lethal injection of prisoner Lester Bower.
Another inmate, Gregory Russeau, is set to die June 15.
Agency spokesman Jason Clark wouldn't say Thursday how much new pentobarbital has been obtained or identify the source, other than it came from a licensed compounding pharmacy. Drugs for execution use nationwide have become difficult to obtain because manufacturers are refusing to sell them.
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Man...these Executioners are blood thirsty to KIL as fast as they can.
What Would Jesus Do?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)meth lab.
Hey, a buck's a buck.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I think that they are psychopaths that are in positions that allow them to kill with impunity.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Also a boycott of any other drugs they produce.
That's why leaks from the government are so important. There's no way they will volunteer that information on their own.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)It's a drugstore that mixes up medications to order. Most of these places are REAL small.
skamaria
(329 posts)N/T
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)with a Republican governor who is running for president. You really don't.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)except...
a once-per-customer '30 day delay'
and.
the Gov appoints the members of the parole board
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)Greg Abbott and company really like killing people
TimeToEvolve
(303 posts)how un- Christ -like of them..
these psychopaths are hardly Christians,
they've never followed the teachings of Christ and never will.
they're still caught up on the Old testament.