Lethal injection debate swirls around Texas executions
Houston (AFP) - The US state of Texas is pushing ahead with the use of lethal injection for its Death Row inmates despite legal challenges over the drugs it employs, in the latest chapter of a fraught national debate over how to conduct executions. Texas is among the 27 states -- more than half the total 50 -- that has capital punishment on the books for certain violent crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and rape. The Lone Star State has carried out executions for a century, and was the first to use lethal injection in 1982. Last year, two inmates filed parallel challenges to their pendi...