Entries tagged with “Richard Tabler”

Nov 03, 2025

New Documents Reveal Texas Has Spent More Than $775,000 on Lethal Injection Drugs Since October 2024 — But Many Other Details Remain Secret

Documents reviewed by *NBC News* in response to a pub­lic records request reveal that since October 2024 Texas has spent more than $775,000 to acquire pen­to­bar­bi­tal, the drug used in the state’s lethal injec­tion exe­cu­tion pro­to­col. During the same time frame, the state has car­ried out 6 exe­cu­tions. The records show that in September 2024, the state obtained 20 one-gram vials of pen­to­bar­bi­tal and an addi­tion­al eight 2.5‑gram vials in February 2025. Per the state’s protocol,…