Texas executes Robert Fratta for 1994 murder

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : AdvertisementFor years, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has extended the use-by dates of its lethal doses of pentobarbital, the only drug used in Texas executions, after retesting their potency levels.
47% : "It is alarming that Texas intends to carry out executions with compounded pentobarbital that expired years ago," Shawn Nolan, an attorney for two men set for execution in February, said in a statement Monday.
38% :In her Tuesday injunction, Mauzy said she was not issuing a stay of execution for any individual prisoner but was instead halting prison officials from "committing certain acts while conducting the executions."
34% : Advertisement Read More 2022 was year of 'botched execution,' with 6 states carrying out death penalty

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