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Texas Death Row inmates appeal suit over untried execution drugs By Carol Christian | December 10, 2013

A federal judge in Houston has thrown out a lawsuit by two Death Row inmates who claim the state intends to execute them with compounded drugs of unknown potency and purity.
Thomas Whitaker, Perry Williams and Michael Yowell filed the suit Oct. 1 against prison officials and "unknown executioners."
Yowell was executed Oct. 9, but execution dates have not been set for Whitaker and Williams.
In their complaint, the prisoners stated that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's supply of pentobarbital - the drug required by their execution protocol - expired at the end of September.
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