you might know. right now the texas state attorney general. greg abbott s office in texas repeatedly ruled the open public records law means the state has to disclose how texas kills its prisoners. the drugs they use. where the drugs come from, et cetera. texas like other states has had trouble getting the drugs that it wants to use for executions because the companies that sell the drugs don t want them used in executions. the texas prison system is therefore turned to compounding pharmacies to make them batches of drugs. the texas prison system is being sued by death row prisoners who wants to know who is making the drugs, how they re being made. tomorrow, the office will give the ruling on whether or not the prison system is allowed to keep secret about the drugs or tell the public in the past. but also, in the past year, greg abbt hott has taken huge donati from a guy who runs pakz fcs.
brutal killing of his young wife. he spent the next quarter century in the texas prison system, totally cut off from his family dealing with the harsh reality of life behind bars. it took 25 years but dna evidence finally reveals what morton s defense attorneys always believed to be true, that morton was innocent. i don t keep the files of all the cases i have tried. i kept michael s file. michael s case was different. on almost every level, particularly emotional level with me. you can t afford to when you try criminal cases, you have to leave a little bit of your own blood on the floor in front of the jury or they will see through you. but you can t afford to carry it around with you for very long.
had i known that this information would have been made public, i never would have provided the drugs. the texas prison system got that letter after they had struck i guess a halfway secret deal with this one pharmacy to get lethal injection drugs for texas s many, many executions of state prisoners. when the name of the pharmacy and what they were doing was made public, the pharmacy decided they no longer wanted to go through with it. texas is number one when it comes to the death penalty, but a lot of states have been having trouble getting the drugs they use to kill their prisoners. many of the companies that make the drugs no longer want their drugs to be used for that purpose. so companies are refusing to sell states these drugs that they have been selling them for years. so texas is on the down-low with a local compounding pharmacist. ohio had an execution scheduled for this week until it was delayed to see if the prisoner might be able to donate his organs. before the delay, thou
would be kept on the downlow. i m not making it up, that s what it says in the letter. it was my belief this information would be kept on the downlow, and it was unlikely it would be discovered my pharmacy provided these drugs. had i known this information would have been made public, i never would have provided the drugs. the texas prison system got that letter after they had struck i guess a halfway secret deal with this one pharmacy to get lethal injection drugs for texas s many, many executions of straight prisoners. when the name of the pharmacy and what they were doing was made public, the pharmacy decided they no longer wanted to go through with it. texas is number one when it comes to the death penalty, but a lot of states have had trouble getting the drugs they use to kill their prisoners. many of the companies that make the drugs no longer want their drugs to be used for that purpose. so companies are refusing to sell states these drugs that
the 211 is a smaller crew. i believe when they did their hit, they were trying to make a name for themselves. it would be like kindergarteners against high schooler. that s the best way i could put it. the aryan brotherhood of texas is an elite group. inside the texas prison system, you have got to watch them 24-7. these are the kind of guys who will stab and kill you instantly and they won t even blink. sad to say, they can walk into your house, kill you, have your dinner and then leave. frightening stuff. thanks for joining us. just ahead here on 360, new information on one of the most common childhood disorders and raising troubling questions tonight. are we overdiagnosing adhd and overmedicating our kids? dr. sanjay gupta is joining us. an uproar in a plant in tucson by giving away free shotguns.