The State of Texas Death Drug Dealer Two weeks ago Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip’s execution was delayed with just hours to spare so an Oklahoma court could consider his appeal. This week the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rejected Glossip’s appeal and his execution is now scheduled for today. Today’s execution date is the third one this year for Glossip. His January execution date was delayed when the United State’s Supreme Court decided to hear Glossip’s case and then later upheld Oklahoma’s execution protocol. Oklahoma uses a three drug cocktail for is executions–midazolam, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. In recent years, state’s where the death penalty is still handed down have struggled to find pharmaceutical companies that will
Read more →How much longer will we have the death penalty? The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Glossip vs. Gross to uphold Oklahoma’s lethal injection procedure after it took 43 minutes for inmate Clayton Lockett to die may have many supporters of the death penalty cheering, but the death penalty is dying a slow death. As a result of a growing number of death row exonerations and the legal and ethical qualms about supplying drugs for the specific purpose of killing people, all 32 remaining death penalty states are now struggling to obtain the necessary drugs needed to perform executions. Nearly 40 years ago America resumed executions after a brief four year break when the practice was temporarily ruled illegal by the
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