A federal judge on Friday denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit that the drugs he is to be injected with.
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jedidiah Murphy. A federal judge on Friday denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit that the drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe.
In response to questions about what kind of impact the fire might have had on the execution drugs and the area where they are stored, Amanda Hernandez, a TDCJ spokeswoman replied, "TDCJ has viable execution drugs available." This creates substantial risks of serious, severe, and superadded harm and pain," according to the lawsuit.
Murphy's lawyers also alleged the criminal justice department is using expired execution drugs, a claim made by seven other death row inmates in a December lawsuit. The lab report "also undermines Murphy's claim that TDCJ is improperly using expired drugs in its executions — the Defendants' testing shows that, even if Murphy's allegation that the drugs are expired is true — which it is not — they remain potent and sterile," the attorney general's office wrote in its response.In the December lawsuit filed by the seven death row inmates, a civil judge in Austin preliminarily agreed with their claims.
But the recent lawsuits have offered a rare glimpse into lesser-known aspects of Texas' execution procedures.
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