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2026-10-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Texas executes Jamaal Howard despite same lethal injection drug used in failed Christa Pike execution

[NYP] A Texas man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a robbery was executed Wednesday evening after the Supreme Court declined to halt the execution, despite his attorneys raising concerns about the lethal injection drug used in a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last week.

Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8:03 p.m. He was sentenced to death for the 2000 killing of 42-year-old Vickie Swartout in Silsbee, Texas.

Prior to Howard’s execution, his attorneys pointed to the failed execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30, arguing that the same drug Texas planned to use could pose similar risks.

“Texas should not be eager to follow in Tennessee’s footsteps; a stay would keep that from happening,” Howard’s attorneys argued in their filing. # id) ?>

Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-08 06:32|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [109 views ] Top

1 Texas has just had more practice.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-08 06:33|| 2026-10-08 06:33|| Front Page || Comments Top

2 It is my understanding that Christa demanded an all-female execution team because being sent on her way by men would be traumatizing. For some reason, this was granted.

Sadly, the girls blew it. Not a doctor, but it sounds like they missed the vein. Twice.

Posted by SteveS 2026-10-08 08:34|| 2026-10-08 08:34|| Front Page || Comments Top

3 this just in: Tennessee will now outsource all it's executions to the Canadian MAID system.

Posted by Mercutio 2026-10-08 09:07|| 2026-10-08 09:07|| Front Page || Comments Top

4 Leave it to the professionals. The Canadian healthcare workers never fail to kill someone who has “voluntarily” agreed to suicide.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-10-08 10:11|| 2026-10-08 10:11|| Front Page || Comments Top

5 You mean they had people that knew what the fuck they were doing and it worked? Shocking.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-10-08 10:14|| 2026-10-08 10:14|| Front Page || Comments Top

6 Another case of "It ain't what ya got, it's how ya use it!" Right, guys?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2026-10-08 10:36|| 2026-10-08 10:36|| Front Page || Comments Top

7 It took them 26 years?

Posted by Crusader 2026-10-08 10:50|| 2026-10-08 10:50|| Front Page || Comments Top

8 #3 probably just needed to call Hillary.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-10-08 10:58|| 2026-10-08 10:58|| Front Page || Comments Top

9
Maybe Texas actually used the drug?
Or the all female team goal was to
ALMOST kill her and let Lawfare to kick in?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-10-08 11:23|| 2026-10-08 11:23|| Front Page || Comments Top

10 this just in:

Canada Halts Plan to Expand MAID Euthanasia for Mental Illness

Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-08 11:35|| 2026-10-08 11:35|| Front Page || Comments Top

11 ^Next step - why waste the meat?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-10-08 11:36|| 2026-10-08 11:36|| Front Page || Comments Top

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