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Texas lethal injection drug may be expired and could cause suffering
Source: The Guardian
Texas lethal injection drug may be expired and could cause suffering
Renée Feltz in New York
Friday 9 October 2015 22.04 BST
The drug Texas uses to execute more prisoners than any other state may be expired, say lawyers who argue its use for lethal injections can cause severe pain and suffering.
Texas used the same potentially outdated barbiturate – pentobarbital - to execute Juan Garcia on Tuesday. Three more of the state’s prisoners have death dates scheduled in the coming weeks, also using the drug.
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New details about the drug Texas uses for its single-drug execution method came to light ahead of a trial that will be the first in the state to examine the secretive procedure before a federal judge in open court.
Among the evidence Texas has handed over in the case is a redacted laboratory sheet detailing the potency and sterility testing it conducted on compounded pentobarbital it received this April. The “use by date” assigned after the test was 9 February 2016.
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Renée Feltz in New York
Friday 9 October 2015 22.04 BST
The drug Texas uses to execute more prisoners than any other state may be expired, say lawyers who argue its use for lethal injections can cause severe pain and suffering.
Texas used the same potentially outdated barbiturate – pentobarbital - to execute Juan Garcia on Tuesday. Three more of the state’s prisoners have death dates scheduled in the coming weeks, also using the drug.
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New details about the drug Texas uses for its single-drug execution method came to light ahead of a trial that will be the first in the state to examine the secretive procedure before a federal judge in open court.
Among the evidence Texas has handed over in the case is a redacted laboratory sheet detailing the potency and sterility testing it conducted on compounded pentobarbital it received this April. The “use by date” assigned after the test was 9 February 2016.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/09/texas-lethal-injection-drug-expired-pentobarbital
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