Texas executions

• Texas, the nation's most active death penalty state, announced Tuesday that it would become the latest to switch to single-drug executions amid a drug shortage that has left states scrambling for acceptable alternatives.
(Dallas Morning News)
• DALLAS -- Texas prison officials are changing the way they do executions due to a drug shortage. Texas has been using the sedative pentobarbital in combination with two other drugs.
(KHOU)
• DALLAS — Texas prison officials have changed their procedure for administering executions to a one-drug method.
(San Francisco Gate)
• A spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said it hadn't received any reports of problems with pentobarbital since Oklahoma became the first to use the drug in executions in 2010. It has since been used in more than a dozen states.
(Muskogee Daily Phoenix)
• 07-10-2012 04:56 PM PDT |By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press Disclaimer: the news stories on Cox.com are the work of leading news organizations whose services are purchased to populate Cox.com with news as a service to our customers.
(COX.net for San Diego)
• Texas has been using the sedative pentobarbital in combination Pentobarbital also is in short supply--its maker stopped selling it for executions last year.
(KXII.com)
• it is easier to align strategy with execution.
(Yahoo Finance)
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(Seekingalpha.com)
• Bob Ray Sanders has renewed his call for a moratorium on executions in Texas. A moratorium is the best strategy in Texas for ending the death penalty in Texas soonest.
(Salon)