Texas aspires to maintain it's execution record as the nation's highest.

Perry obtained them illegally, but, hey the drug companies would have sent them to Texas anyway just for the asking. Amazing. Look, they are gonna die, what difference does it make!

I mean to tell you, Texas is first class. The room is painted pretty and that is by far the most comfortable execution bed in the country. No pain when dyin'. Puts every other state to shame.

By Jim Forsyth

SAN ANTONIO, Texas 
Wed Oct 2, 2013 4:48pm EDT

...Texas is turning to the new execution drugs (click here) in a desperate attempt to keep the United States' most active execution chamber operating despite dwindling supplies of the drug traditionally used for lethal injections, a lawsuit filed by the inmates says.

The inmates, one of whom is scheduled for execution on Oct. 9, allege the Texas Department of Criminal Justice used the address of a hospital unit shuttered three decades ago in order to obtain the three new drugs.

They say the drugs - propofol, midzolam and hydromorphone - would likely not have been supplied if the manufacturers knew the purpose they would be used for, according to a lawsuit filed this Tuesday in federal court in Houston.
Texas prison officials declined to comment on the allegations made in the lawsuit.

They said Wednesday that they have enough pentobarbital, the barbiturate used in Texas executions since 2012, to last them until at least next year. The state recently received a fresh supply of the drug from a Texas compounding pharmacy, after warning in August that their supplies were nearly exhausted.
"The purchase will allow the agency to carry out all currently scheduled executions," state officials said in a statement.

Texas has seven executions scheduled, including two in October. The state has executed 13 inmates so far this year....

by Carolyn Jones

@cjpaustin

October 2, 2013 1:30PM ET

Despite efforts to tie impasse to 'Obamacare,' many Texans say they are fed up with political games, overspending (click here)

...Travus Clark, a 17-year-old sheetrocker and friend of the family, was also in the shop.

“I don’t like how they’re not paying Border Patrol agents for working when the United States is shut down,” he said. “What’s going to happen without those agents? Gonna have a lot more Mexicans in Texas!”

Cheryl Pratt, 47, co-owner of Johnson City Sign Shop and Print, had a different concern. The National Park Service is a client, and it has frozen its orders until further notice.

“It doesn’t look good for tourism, either,” said Pratt, who wore a red T-shirt showing the U.S. states in the shape of a heart culminating in an oversize Texas at the base. “We’re still going to get up and work and do our thing and keep pushing forward. We’re a mom-and-pop shop. We better get up and work, because no one’s going to support us.”...

...He produced a $10 bill, which bore a red stamp that read, “Vote the Bastards Out.” Many similar notes circulate in Johnson City, Bowker said.
“If we’re going to overthrow the government, now would be a good time to do it. They’re closed!” he said with a smile.

One patron, Jim Edwards, 63, a mechanic with a greasy shirt and mutton-chop facial hair, was less amused.

“I think it’s a joke, but so is the government,” he said.

Johnson City is home to the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, which is operated by the National Park Service. As a federally funded entity, the park is closed....
...Similarly, Lance Center, 49, a harried CPA, grabbed his grocery cart and said over his shoulder, “It’s time to quit fighting and get some things done.”

Another 37 miles farther along a ribbon of country road punctuated by water towers and grazing cattle is the city of Llano, in a county where 76 percent voted for Cruz.

Buddy Miller, 64, a retired federal worker from the U.S. Geological Survey, snorted, “Did the government shut down? I hadn’t noticed!”...

...“I think the shutdown’s stupid,” he said. “It’s not going to accomplish anything other than make people angry. The government ought to compromise on things that are workable and stop wasting time on things that we have no hope to accomplish.”

Sandy Deatherage, 50, an off-duty bartender wearing rainbow flip-flops and a warm Texas smile, sat on a bench outside her bar drinking a beer. Flocks of grackles in the nearby town square serenaded the setting sun.

“I think Obama’s full of s---,” she said. “I mean, the means of collecting our money is still open, but the means of helping people is shut down. I’ve never been an Obama fan, but this shutdown has definitely made it worse.”

Oops.

Published October 01, 2013

FoxNews.com

...A Texas homeowner (click here) was shot dead by police after he shot and killed a career criminal who broke into his home Thursday night, authorities say.

The Dallas Morning News reports police did not realize 57-year-old William Keith Hall was defending his home when they arrived, and that Hall ignored the officers’ repeated demands he drop his weapon.

Maj. Jeff Cotner tells the paper Hall pointed a pistol at police officers and witnesses on the scene, and that he had plenty of time to “de-escalate the situation.”

“He was given plenty of notice, and he didn’t choose a path other than to confront officers,” Cotner said....