Texas Set to Execute Jamaal Howard, 46, as Lawyers Challenge Pentobarbital After Tennessee Botch
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 7
Texas Set to Execute Jamaal Howard, 46, as Lawyers Challenge Pentobarbital After Tennessee Botch
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 7
Summary
Jamaal Howard, 46, is scheduled to be executed in Texas at about 6 p.m. Central on Wednesday, making him the first U.S. inmate set for execution since Tennessee’s failed attempt last week.
A 30-day delay request argues Texas may use pentobarbital—the same drug used in Tennessee—and that prison officials have not disclosed what drug will be used or how it was stored.
Howard’s lawyers also asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay the execution, warning it could be botched like Tennessee’s attempt on Christa Pike.
Pike survived two doses of lethal injection and remained conscious and speaking as of Tuesday while receiving care at a Nashville hospital.
Separate petitions pending at the U.S. Supreme Court argue Howard should not be executed because he has an intellectual disability.