Texas prison agency seeks to replenish execution drug supply
Source: Associated Press
Texas prison agency seeks to replenish execution drug supply
By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press | March 9, 2015
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas prison officials are scurrying to find a supplier to replenish a dwindling inventory of execution drugs.
Their search is taking place amid a pending court order that would no longer allow the state to protect the supplier's identity.
The nation's most active death penalty state has enough pentobarbital for executions scheduled this week and next week. But prison officials don't yet know about lethal injections of four others scheduled for April.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Executive Director Brad Livingston says it's a challenge facing not only his agency but prison departments nationwide.
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