A convicted serial killer was executed in Texas on Thursday by a lethal
injection that came from an undisclosed source. The Supreme Court
declined to halt the execution of Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, despite his
lawyer’s plea that too much secrecy surrounded the source of
pentobarbital. The Supreme Court sided with Texas prison officials, who
argued that the source had to remain a secret to protect the supplier
from threats of violence. The issue of secrecy surrounding
pentobarbital sources for lethal injections has come up more frequently,
as drugmakers increasingly refused to sell it in cases of capital
punishment. So far, the Supreme Court has rejected stays on the basis of
these drug concerns.
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