No Texas changes in execution procedure

By Washington Examiner

Published July 24, 2014 9:29pm ET

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No Texas changes in execution procedure — Family members of the victims, Jeanne Brown, left, who had a sister and father murdered, speaks during a news conference as her husband Richard Brown listens, after the nearly two hour long execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood at the state prison on Wednesday, July 23, 2014, in Florence, Ariz. (AP Photo) | AP

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas prison officials say they plan no changes in lethal injection procedures in the wake of problems with an execution in Arizona.

Unlike Arizona, which used a two-drug protocol of midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone for an execution Wednesday that took two hours, Texas uses a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital.

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