It has not re-enacted procedures. The void remains. The Correctional Managed Care Advisory Committeee of the Texas Deartment of Criminal Justice witholds treatment. He depended on a cell neighbor to complete forms required to take him to the infirmary. Unlike psychiatric prisons, death row does not have air conditioning.
Psychotropic drugs heighten body temperature.
The infirmary treated Duhamel's heat rash in the week of his death. An outside temperature of 100 degrees means it was 110 degrees in his cell. Death results when the body reaches and stays at 104 degrees. Fans that used to circulate air are gone. Inmates can buy one 8 inch fan.