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Texas executes Robert Fratta after high courts reject challenges to expired lethal injection drugs
Read full article: Texas executes Robert Fratta after high courts reject challenges to expired lethal injection drugsFratta was convicted in the 1994 murder-for-hire of his wife. Lawyers unsuccessfully challenged Texas’ routine of extending the expiration dates of its lethal drugs, a practice begun when many pharmacies began refusing to provide doses for executions.
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‘We apologize for this critical error’: Texas Department of Criminal Justice investigating why media wasn’t allowed at Wednesday’s execution
Read full article: ‘We apologize for this critical error’: Texas Department of Criminal Justice investigating why media wasn’t allowed at Wednesday’s executionIt was the first execution since last summer, but a huge error prevents the media from witnessing it.
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For the first time in more than 40 years, media was not allowed to witness a Texas execution
Read full article: For the first time in more than 40 years, media was not allowed to witness a Texas executionOn Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999.