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March 28, 2014

Texas Executes 4th Prisoner This Year; Judge Orders Disclosure of Drug's New Supplier 
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Texas has executed its fourth prisoner this year. Anthony Doyle was
pronounced dead 25 minutes after being injected with pentobarbital from
a compounding pharmacy. His execution came hours after a state judge
ordered prison officials to disclose the name of the state's new
supplier of pentobarbital to attorneys for two prisoners set for
execution next month. The ruling came a day after an Oklahoma judge
struck down that state's law hiding information about execution drugs.
An Amnesty International report Thursday ranked the United States fifth
worldwide in the number of executions it carries out, after China, Iran,
Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

 

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