04-04-2011, 08:34 PM
On the eve of his execution, a Texas death row is saying that he does not want to be the state’s guinea pig for the use of a new drug for lethal injection.
Cleve Foster, who is accused of murdering Sudanese refugee Nyaneur Pal in 2002, is set to be executed on Tuesday, but he doesn’t want to be the first Texan to be executed with the new drug pentobarbital.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been unable to find a supplier of sodium thiopental, one of the three drugs it has been using in a lethal chemical mixture used in execute prisoners. Instead the department announced last month it would begin using pentobarbital as a substitute as Oklahoma and Ohio have in executions.
Supplies of sodium thiopental have been dwindling, as the drug is no longer produced in the U.S.
Cleve Foster, who is accused of murdering Sudanese refugee Nyaneur Pal in 2002, is set to be executed on Tuesday, but he doesn’t want to be the first Texan to be executed with the new drug pentobarbital.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been unable to find a supplier of sodium thiopental, one of the three drugs it has been using in a lethal chemical mixture used in execute prisoners. Instead the department announced last month it would begin using pentobarbital as a substitute as Oklahoma and Ohio have in executions.
Supplies of sodium thiopental have been dwindling, as the drug is no longer produced in the U.S.