TDCJ Re-Fills Drug Supply

State's death chamber now has enough lethal drugs to get through April

"...of Criminal Justice confirmed that it has procured enough pentobarbital to execute every death row inmate on its docket..."

March 25, 2015 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Does an Expired Execution Drug Make Death Painful?

Either way, the state killed Robert Fratta Tuesday

"...Willie Trottie's attorneys argued that the use of expired pentobarbital, the drug the state has used since 2012 to..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Row Inmates Say Expired Drug Makes Execution Painful, Cruel

Robert Fratta set to die Tuesday night

"...2014. Trottie’s attorneys argued that the use of expired pentobarbital, the drug the state has used since 2012 to..."

Jan. 9, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: A First Time for Everything

Execution date withdrawn for Perry Williams after state fails to retest lethal drugs

"...to determine the purity of the dose of compounded pentobarbital (the state's execution drug of choice) reserved for Williams'..."

July 15, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Appeals, Waived Appeals, and Conflicting Findings

Fifth Circuit strikes down request to test death drugs

"...the state of Texas test their doses of compounded pentobarbital (the drug used for executions) before carrying out each..."

Sept. 23, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: A Drug Shortage

How will Texas kill people if it runs out of the drugs to do it?

"...occur by injection of the state's current supply of pentobarbital, a sedative the Texas Department of Criminal Justice uses..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: The Quality of State Killings

Why is the TDCJ so reluctant to test death drugs?

"...testing methods TDCJ employs for its doses of compounded pentobarbital, the highly secretive drug TDCJ uses to carry out..."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Trial by Fire

Cameron Todd Willingham story deserves a better retelling that trusts the evidence

"...judges and juries routinely render eye-for-an-eye verdicts and the pentobarbital flows like water through the veins of the condemned...."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

DOJ Declares FDA Unable to Regulate Execution Drugs

Ruling could put an end to the legal fight between Texas and the FDA

"...Tuesday ruling will affect Texas, which has been using pentobarbital for executions since 2012...."

May 17, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Lucky 13?

The state on pace for a baker's dozen of executions by year end

"...Texas Depart­ment of Criminal Justice acquires its execution drug pentobarbital "from a compounding pharmacy that has been repeatedly cited..."

Dec. 7, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Texas Supreme Court Affirms Ruling to Name Death Drugs

State will appeal decision

"...started using compounding pharmacies to obtain its doses of pentobarbital and before the state Legislature passed a law allowing..."

June 8, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Justice for Whom?

Kent Whitaker never wanted execution for his son

"...the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's then-current stock of pentobarbital (the state's execution drug of choice). The case was..."

Feb. 16, 2018 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Conflicts of Interest

What to do when your appelate attorney's headed to work for the D.A.?

"...their drugs used for lethal injection. In 2011, Danish pentobarbital manufacturer Lund­beck prohibited sales to U.S. pharmacies. Last May,..."

Jan. 6, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Meth, Madness, and Death

Capital case tests limits of insanity defense

"...the Texas Department of Criminal Justice scrambled for more pentobarbital, the lethal injection drug it uses to kill Death..."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

News Ticker: October 8

All the news that's fit to blog

"...hoped that his steamy Texas Department of Criminal Justice pentobarbital affair would be kept on the "down low," but..."

Oct. 8, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Death Watch: Running Low on Poison

The state of Texas has three executions' worth of pentobarbitol

"...carry those out is uncertain since its stock of pentobarbital, the only drug it now uses for lethal injection..."

Aug. 9, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

TDCJ Violating Federal Drug Laws?

Could it be that prison officials have lying to the DEA?

"...used in executions, prompted the change, which would substitute pentobarbital (used in animal euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicides, among other..."

March 30, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?

Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream

"...So if you're administering a lethal dose of sodium pentobarbital, an anesthetic agent blue as a summer sky, you'll..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Death Watch: A Reprieve From Death Row

Clinton Young's death sentence overturned over legal misconduct

"...so that officials may administer an intravenous injection of pentobarbital. Accord­ing to Ellis, in order for Barbee's arms to..."

Oct. 8, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Paxton: Lethal Injection Forever

A.G. joins amicus brief in opposition to Missouri man's request for death by lethal gas

"...alternative execution method – specifically lethal gas instead of pentobarbital – which he argues is his Eighth Amendment right...."

Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Shuffling the Deck

Death row inmates see new execution dates

"...Justice be required to test their doses of compounded pentobarbital, the cocktail used for lethal injections, which got dismissed..."

Oct. 14, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Headlines

"...arguing that the state's highly secretive application of compounded pentobarbital absent retesting shortly before execution violates the Eighth and..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature

Death Watch: A Dying Breed

Can Texas even carry out an execution anymore?

"...granted the right to have their doses of compounded pentobarbital (the cocktail used in state killings) tested for purity...."

Sept. 9, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

"...the Texas Department of Criminal Justice running out of pentobarbital – a sedative TDCJ uses in conjunction with other drugs..."

Jan. 1, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Point Austin: The Machinery of Death

Supreme Court quibbles about drugs and avoids the larger ethical issue

"...failed to prove the availability of sodium thiopental or pentobarbital, the State could execute them using whatever means it..."

July 10, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Supreme Court OKs Use of Execution Drug

SCOTUS greenlights use of lethal injection drug midazolam

"...Texas currently uses the sedative pentobarbital thanks to shipments from a few unidentified compound pharmacies,..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

News Ticker: October 21

All the news that's fit to blog

"...We admit that staging a burlesque revue called the "Pentobarbital Follies" was a bit much...."

Oct. 21, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Headlines

"...challenging the state's use of compounded instead of manufactured pentobarbital, the state of Texas went forward with the Oct...."

Oct. 18, 2013 News Feature

News Ticker: October 9

All the news that's fit to blog

"...• With the shortage of pentobarbital, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is stockpiling propofol,..."

Oct. 9, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Death Watch: Madness and Forensics

Two capital cases raise psychological and evidentiary issues

"...week's execution of Arturo Diaz, the state's supply of pentobarbital expired, leaving the Texas Department of Criminal Justice without..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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