Texas yesterday  murder convict hours after the US Supreme Court turned down a final appeal. It marked the state's first use of in a . 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.
Texas yesterday executed murder convict hours after the US Supreme Court turned down a final appeal. It marked the state's first use of in a . Texas is among several US states with difficulties sourcing drugs for lethal injections. Texas previously used but supplier ceased manufacturing it. Used as an assisted suicide 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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