May have to dust it off.
Posted on 08/01/2013 8:50:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The nation’s most active death penalty state is running out of its execution drug.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Thursday that its remaining supply of pentobarbital expires in September and that no alternatives have been found. It wasn’t immediately clear whether two executions scheduled for next month would be delayed. The state has already executed 11 death-row inmates this year, and at least seven more have execution dates in coming months. …
Texas switched to the lethal, single-dose sedative last year after one of the drugs used in its three-drug execution process became difficult to obtain and the state’s supply expired. Other death-penalty states have encountered similar problems after some drug suppliers barred the drugs’ use for executions or have refused, under pressure from death-penalty opponents, to sell or manufacture drugs for use in executions. …
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ACE Hardware sells rope.
You don’t need drugs, if you resort to guillotines.
What about Old Sparky?
Let me guess: you can’t use expired execution drug because, ah, it might be dangerous?
What’s wrong with one bullet? Cheap, effective. And Lord knows they don’t have issues obtaining ammo like we do.
Gas chamber, firing squad, hanging, electric chair.
BWAHAHAHHAHHA!
Perfect!!
He became the first person executed in the United States in ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia. Gilmore was executed by firing squad at Utah State Prison in 1977.
i can send them some vitamin lead.
The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It does not guarantee a painless execution.
May have to dust it off.
Nitrogen asphyxiation is the way to go.
Perfect, not running out of kilowatts.
Nothing wrong with lead. Killed millions for centuries in wars. Also quick and simple.
Cripes, they need me to send them a gallon of bleach?
No they're not!! A whole bunch of us Texans will be happy to donate to the prison system so the bottom feeders can die of lead poisoning!!
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