Posted on 04/03/2014 5:42:58 PM PDT by mdittmar
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.
Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of newly replenished pentobarbital that Texas prison officials obtained to replace an expired supply of the powerful sedative.
Sells declined to give a statement. As the drug began flowing into his arms inside the death chamber in Huntsville, Sells took a few breaths, his eyes closed and he began to snore. After less than a minute, he stopped moving. He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m. CDT — 13 minutes after being given the pentobarbital.
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Another first: a serial killer whose middle name wasn’t “Wayne.”
even in the most egregious cases, the accused deserves legal counsel, if for no other reason than to ensure that he receives a fair trial....we can have it no other way
this country used to have speedy capital crime sentencing. used to.
I think the people of Hunstville miss Old Sparky. They say they knew when there was an execution because the lights would dim temporarily.
“Don’t know , the chinese have it right.
Yang Xinhai the “monster killer” a serial killer who truly was a monster who butchered 67 people was executed in less then a month after he was convicted.”
And cost was only a couple of cents for one Chinese 9mm round.
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