Fratta execution leaves little hope in inmates' legal battle over expired injection drugs in Texas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The district attorney's office, meanwhile, has yet to pursue execution dates for Fratta's convicted accomplices, Joseph Prystash and Howard Paul Guidry, in the murder-for-hire plot -- though both of them are eligible for execution, Reiss continued.
45% : The Texas Department of Criminal Justice uses the drug -- which causes rapid coma, respiratory depression and hypotension once injected -- but reportedly has a dwindling supply of it .
45% : "Every single death penalty case and every single inmate who has received the death penalty and is here on death row gets their own day.
44% : Death row inmates Wesley Ruiz and John Lezell Balentine, whom Nolan represents, are among those scheduled for execution later this year.
42% : Her office has pursued the death penalty on fewer cases than past administrations.
40% : That issue may have little impact ultimately over his death penalty case since the trial court judge went ahead and signed his death warrant.

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