Texas executions stayed by federal judge over state's lethal drug source

State must provide inmates with information about the source of the drugs it will use to put them to death, judge rules

 

A federal judge in Houston has stopped two imminent Texas executions because state officials refused to reveal key details about the drugs to be used to put the inmates to death.
District judge Vanessa Gilmore issued a temporary injunction on Wednesday ordering Texas to provide the lawyers representing inmates Tommy Sells and Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas with information about the supplier and quality of a new batch of pentobarbital, a barbiturate that is to be used in the lethal injections.

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