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   From: chris.metzger@aol.com   
      
   Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute   
   death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out   
   death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of   
   the month.   
      
   But correction officials will not say where they bought the   
   drugs, arguing that information must be kept secret to protect   
   the safety of its new supplier. In interviews with The   
   Associated Press, officials with the Texas Department of   
   Criminal Justice also refused to say whether providing anonymity   
   to its new supplier of the sedative pentobarbital was a   
   condition of its purchase.   
      
   The decision to keep details about the drugs and their source   
   secret puts the agency at odds with past rulings of the state   
   attorney general's office, which has said the state's open   
   records law requires the agency to disclose specifics about the   
   drugs it uses to carry out lethal injections.   
      
   "We are not disclosing the identity of the pharmacy because of   
   previous, specific threats of serious physical harm made against   
   businesses and their employees that have provided drugs used in   
   the lethal injection process," said Texas Department of Criminal   
   Justice spokesman Jason Clark.   
      
   The dispute in the state that executes more inmates than any   
   other comes as major drugmakers, many based in Europe, have   
   stopped selling pentobarbital and other substances used in   
   lethal injections to U.S. corrections agencies because they   
   oppose the death penalty.   
      
   http://keranews.org/post/texas-finds-new-drug-supply-executions   
      
         
      
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