The Huntsville Item reports, "TDCJ has enough drugs to carry out executions in 2012," by Cody Stark.
Despite continuing shortages of the drug used in lethal injection executions in Texas, the Texas prison system has enough to carry out scheduled executions.
According to a recent report in The Guardian, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is running low in one of these drugs.
And:
TDCJ spokesman Jason Clark said the agency could not disclose more information on the subject because of a ruling in the case the Texas Department of Public Safety vs. Cox Texas Newspapers, which protects public disclosure of highly intimate facts, but he did issue a statement on The Guardian’s report.
“There are several inaccuracies in the Guardian article; however, consistent with past practice, the agency will only confirm that we have enough drugs on hand to carry out all scheduled executions,” Clark said.
There are six executions on the schedule to be carried out this year in Texas. The next offender set to die is Anthony Bartee on Feb. 28. Bartee, a convicted rapist, was found guilty and sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of a 37-year-old man in San Antonio.
Earlier coverage of the lethal injection drug shortage begins at the link.
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