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Judge orders Texas to stop using expired lethal injection drugs, throwing Tuesday’s execution of Robert Fratta in doubt
Read full article: Judge orders Texas to stop using expired lethal injection drugs, throwing Tuesday’s execution of Robert Fratta in doubtFratta was convicted in the 1994 murder-for-hire of his wife. Lawyers are challenging Texas’ routine of extending the expiration dates of its lethal drugs, a practice begun when many pharmacies began refusing to provide doses for executions.
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For the first time in more than 40 years, media was not allowed to witness a Texas execution
Read full article: For the first time in more than 40 years, media was not allowed to witness a Texas executionOn Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999.