Thursday, July 19, 2012

Carjacker who shot victim ten times will be first Texas prisoner executed with new lethal injection drug

Yokamon Hearn, 33, is set to become the first Texas prisoner to be executed under the state's new single-drug lethal injection procedure
A Texas prisoner who murdered a 23-year-old stockbroker in 1998 is due to become the first to be executed under the U.S. state's new single-drug lethal injection procedure.
Yokamon Hearn, 33, who shot Frank Meziere ten times before dumping his body on the side 
of the
road, is due to be executed on Wednesday.
Hearn will be the sixth prisoner executed in Texas this year, but the first since the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced its switch to single-drug lethal injections amid a drug shortage that has left states in the U.S. scrambling for acceptable alternatives.
It was announced last week that Texas would use a single dose of pentobarbital as a lethal injection, instead of using the sedative in combination with two other drugs as before.
Ohio became the first state to use a single drug a year ago, and several other states have since made the switch.
Courts have upheld the practice, despite the reaction of death penalty opponents who claim that prisoners take longer to die with a single drug.


....What do you think about his death sentence? I mean the Lethal injection ? 


Share your thoughts...thanks!

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