Texas to execute Mexican Edgar Tamayo despite international protests
Case comes amid fresh scrutiny of methods state is taking to carry out lethal injections in the wake of national drug shortage
Tom Dart in Houston
- theguardian.com,
- Texas is set to execute a Mexican national on Wednesday despite international protests and amid fresh scrutiny of the methods states are using to carry out lethal injections.
Dennis McGuire was executed in Ohio last Thursday using a new two-drug protocol, and eyewitness accounts suggested that he suffered an agonising death that took up to 25 minutes. Edgar Tamayo will be put to death in Texas using pentobarbital bought from a compounding pharmacy, a method the state introduced last autumn. Prison officials revealed to the Associated Press last October that they started using compounded pentobarbital after the state's previous supply of the drug expired.
States have turned to compounding pharmacies and single-drug protocols in recent years after running out of their usual stocks because of a boycott by European pharmaceutical companies. But lawyers for death row inmates have repeatedly – though largely without success – challenged the use of such drugs, claiming they could cause undue suffering. - continue to read here
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