Texas kills man in first US execution since botched lethal injection of Christa Pike
by Uwa Ede-Osifo from US news | The Guardian on (#78X85)
Jamaal Howard, 46, executed by fatal dose of pentobarbital after lawyers' bid for stay had been denied
A Texas man was put to death Wednesday in the first US execution since the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week.
Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8.03pm after receiving a fatal dose of pentobarbital, a sedative, at the state prison in Huntsville.
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