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December 4, 2018

Texas: Calls Grow to Halt Executions by Lethal Injection
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Back in the United States, calls are growing for Texas to halt its
executions after Buzz Feed revealed the state buys its lethal injection
drugs from a Houston pharmacy whose license has been on probation since
2016. As they were dying, five of the 11 prisoners Texas executed this
year said their bodies felt like they were burning after they were
injected. The process is supposed to be painless. Two more executions
are scheduled this month, including one tonight. Gloria Rubac of the
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement protested Monday outside
Greenpark Compounding Pharmacy and Gifts.

Gloria Rubac: "Let us know now that you will stop making, compounding
lethal injection drugs. If you do not, you will face an international
campaign to boycott your business, and we will shut you down."



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