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Jamaal Howard execution

Texas executed Jamaal Howard by lethal injection after courts denied his lawyers' request for a stay. His attorneys had cited the recent botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee and sought information about the same drug used in that failed attempt. The execution was the first in the US since Pike's botched procedure.

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Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike botched lethal injection

Texas executed Jamaal Howard by lethal injection after courts denied his lawyers' request for a stay. His attorneys had cited the recent botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee and sought information about the same drug used in that failed attempt. The execution was the first in the US since Pike's botched procedure.

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