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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 04:06 PM Jun 2014

US Supreme Court Ruling Means Texas Can Continue To Keep Execution Drug Supplier Secret

Source: Associated Press

By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press
First Posted: June 09, 2014 - 3:18 pm

HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose attorneys had demanded that state officials disclose the source of drugs intended to execute him.

Robert James Campbell, 41, had avoided execution May 13 when the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stopped his punishment less than three hours before he could have been put to death. That court agreed to give Campbell's lawyers time to pursue claims that he's mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty. That issue is still pending.

At the time of the reprieve, Campbell's appeal seeking identity of the supplier of the pentobarbital used by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for executions was before the Supreme Court.

Campbell was sentenced to death for the 1991 abduction, rape and slaying of a 20-year-old Houston bank teller, Alexandra Rendon.

Read more: http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/e3859291a1af4e5b87a1f67b8f9f8a12/US--Texas-Execution-Appeal

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US Supreme Court Ruling Means Texas Can Continue To Keep Execution Drug Supplier Secret (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2014 OP
Let's guess five big business buffoons to four. Festivito Jun 2014 #1
It was not five to four. former9thward Jun 2014 #2
Bizarre... SoapBox Jun 2014 #3

Festivito

(13,452 posts)
1. Let's guess five big business buffoons to four.
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:22 PM
Jun 2014

They want to torture.
They want to kill unwatched by even the invisible hand of the market.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
3. Bizarre...
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:00 PM
Jun 2014

Just bizarre...We're gonna kill you with something...and you can't know what it is or makes it.

Homemade like a meth lab?

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