"Let's go warden. I'm ready" were his last words. He and co-defendant Joe Cordova were found guilty of the 1999 murder of Michael Ryan Nichols, stabbed 94 times over a 50 debt. Witnesses and forensics linked them to the crime. Texas is among several US states with difficulties sourcing drugs for lethal injections. Texas previously used but supplier ceased manufacturing it. Used as an drug, pentobarbital is also hard to source with Danish manufacturer opposed  its product being used to execute. State authorities refused to identify the supplier of the pentobarbital used yesterday, which replaces stocks of execution drugs that expired last month.
"Let's go warden. I'm ready" were his last words. He and co-defendant Joe Cordova were found guilty of the 1999 murder of Michael Ryan Nichols, stabbed 94 times over a 50 debt. Witnesses and forensic evidence linked them to the crime. Texas is among several US states with difficulties sourcing drugs for lethal injections. Texas previously used but supplier ceased manufacturing it. Used as an drug, pentobarbital is also hard to source with Danish manufacturer opposed to its product being used to execute. State authorities refused to identify the supplier of the pentobarbital used yesterday, which replaces stocks of execution drugs that expired last month.
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