Texas still uses Lundbeck-drug for executions
A controversial drug, which was formerly owned by a Danish pharmaceutical company, is to be used by itself in Texas executions.
This Wednesday 33-year-old Yokamon Hearn will be the first Texas-inmate to be executed with the drug pentobarbital alone - a drug that was originally manufactured by the Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck. Texas, the most execution-eager state in the US, has started using pentobarbital by itself, instead of in a combination of several drugs.
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