Texas using custom-made drug to execute criminals: FOIA request Read more: http://www.nydailynews.c

[discocrisco01]

Source: Associated Press

* More executions are carried out in Texas’ Huntsville Unit death chambers than in any other state.
* Texas prison officials disclosed Wednesday that they are using a compounding pharmacy to obtain the drug used during executions.
* Pentobarbital has been used as the lone drug in lethal executions in Texas for more than a year.
* The agency has purchased a new supply of the drug from a Texas pharmacy that has the ability to compound," Clark said
* In an FOIA request from the Associated Press, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice revealed that a warden from the Huntsville Unit bought eight vials of pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy in Houston last month.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-custom-made-drug-execute-criminals-foia-request-article-1.1474041

[Tx4obama]

1. Please edit and fix the OP up above

The subject line should be ONLY the 'headline' that is published on the link.

Also, the 'excerpt' should be FROM the article (and no more than four paragraphs of the article that appear on the OP link)

Thanks

[7962]

2. I've never understood the problem. We put people to sleep every day for surgery.

Just give them a bigger dose of whatever they give the rest of us. Done.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Yup. I've had the same thought many times.

Some people must think that's too nice an end for someone being punished.

But I think holding them for years and then killing them is plenty.

(In fact, I think the DP is bad policy, which is not to say that some don't deserve it)

[Hubert Flottz]

3. I would have guessed Zyclon B...

Or a phenol injection directly into the heart."Abspritzen"

[marble falls]

5. Nuthin' can keep a Texan down from puttin' 'nuther Texan down. Woo.Hoo.