One week after the horrific botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, a civil rights action and stay motion on behalf of Texas death row prisoner Robert James Campbell was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, challenging Texas' right to execute Mr. Campbell without disclosing the source of and other information about the compounded pentobarbital to be used in his execution on May 13th. It was only recently, with its purchase of the most recent batch of lethal injection drugs, that Texas began to follow the path of secrecy shared by Oklahoma in the weeks leading up to Mr. Lockett's torturous death. The complaint and request for a stay can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/file/d... and https://docs.google.com/file/d...
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