Court Blocks Texas Execution Using New Drug

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the first scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate using pentobarbital on Tuesday. Cleve Foster was to have been executed Tuesday evening for the 2002 slaying of a Sudanese woman in Fort Worth - the first Texas execution since the state switched to pentobarbital in its lethal three-drug mixture. On Tuesday morning, the high court agreed to reconsider its January order denying Foster's appeal that raised claims of...
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