Post by Logan on Jan 25, 2016 15:05:35 GMT -6
Texas owed Virginia a favor when it gave the state the first of three drugs it needed to execute serial killer Alfredo Prieto by injection in October.
With a March 16 execution date set for Richmond’s Ricky Javon Gray, the Virginia Department of Corrections says it currently lacks enough of that drug to put to death the killer of Richmond’s Harvey family.
Virginia has three drugs approved for use in the first step. But state officials said in September that, because execution drugs are increasingly unavailable, it was able to obtain only pentobarbital from Texas.
The department said last week that it “has only two” of the three pentobarbital vials it received from Texas in August, suggesting, perhaps for backup or other reasons, that two are not enough for an execution, even though it appears just one vial was used to execute Prieto.
Continued at www.roanoke.com/news/crime/virginia-says-it-lacks-drugs-needed-for-lethal-injections/article_305fbef2-c37b-50b4-a069-e698f3b4ec0b.html .
With a March 16 execution date set for Richmond’s Ricky Javon Gray, the Virginia Department of Corrections says it currently lacks enough of that drug to put to death the killer of Richmond’s Harvey family.
Virginia has three drugs approved for use in the first step. But state officials said in September that, because execution drugs are increasingly unavailable, it was able to obtain only pentobarbital from Texas.
The department said last week that it “has only two” of the three pentobarbital vials it received from Texas in August, suggesting, perhaps for backup or other reasons, that two are not enough for an execution, even though it appears just one vial was used to execute Prieto.
Continued at www.roanoke.com/news/crime/virginia-says-it-lacks-drugs-needed-for-lethal-injections/article_305fbef2-c37b-50b4-a069-e698f3b4ec0b.html .