TDCJ has enough drugs to carry out executions in 2012
February 15, 2012
By Cody Stark, Huntsville Item Staff Reporter
HUNTSVILLE — Despite continuing shortages of the drug used in lethal injection executions in Texas, the Texas prison system has enough to carry out scheduled executions.
According to a recent report in The Guardian, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is running low in one of these drugs.
The British newspaper reports that TDCJ only has enough pentobarbital, a sedative that is one of the three drugs used in the mixture for lethal injections, left to carry out six more executions before the supply runs out thus delaying future death sentences from being carried out.
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