Judge Denies Texas Inmate’s Request to Stop Execution Over Claims That Fire Damaged Injection Drugs

Judge Denies Texas Inmate’s Request to Stop Execution Over Claims That Fire Damaged Injection Drugs
Jedidiah Murphy. Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP
The Associated Press
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HOUSTON—A federal judge on Friday denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit that the drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe.

The Texas Attorney General’s Office says testing done after the fire on samples of the state’s supplies of pentobarbital, the drug used in executions, showed they “remain potent and sterile.”