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Convicted killer Yokamon Hearn is scheduled for execution on July 18, 2012 for the carjacking murder of 23-year-old Plano stockbroker Frank Meziere. (credit: Dallas Co. Sheriff's Dept.)

Texas Readies Single-Drug Execution For Dallas Carjacker

Convicted killer Yokamon Hearn once bragged how the carjacking murder that would send him to death row earned him a headline. Now he faces the notoriety of news stories proclaiming him the first Texas prisoner executed under a new single-drug procedure.

2012/07/17

Texas death chamber execution gurney. (credit: AP)

Drug Shortage Has State Switching To 1-Drug Execution

Texas prison officials are changing the way they do executions due to a drug shortage.

2012/07/10

Judge Blocks Importation Of Drug Used In Execution

A federal judge has blocked the importation of a drug used in executions on grounds the Food and Drug Administration ignored the law by allowing it into this country.

2012/03/27

The execution gurney in the death chamber in Huntsville, Texas. (credit: AP)

New Drug Increases Texas Execution Cost

The switch to a substitute drug to carry out executions is driving up the costs of carrying out capital punishment in Texas.

2012/02/24

The Texas death chamber in Huntsville. (credit: Getty Images/Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)

Texas Executes Inmate With New Drug Combo

A man convicted of raping and strangling a woman was executed Tuesday, becoming the state’s first inmate put to death using a new drug.

2011/05/04

Texas Prepares 1st Execution Using New Drug

Cary Kerr, who was convicted of raping and strangling a woman in 2001, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Tuesday by lethal injection.

2011/05/03

1st Texas Execution With New Drug Set For Tuesday

A condemned Dallas man acknowledges the prospect of becoming the first Texas prisoner to be executed with a new drug is unsettling. Cary Kerr is set to die for the rape and slaying of a woman near Fort Worth 10 years ago.

2011/05/02

Denmark Tries To Stop Use Of Death Penalty Drug

Denmark’s foreign minister is urging U.S. states to stop using a lethal injection drug produced by a Danish company.

2011/04/14

U.S. Supreme Court Gives Reprieve To Fort Worth Murderer

The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked the first scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate using pentobarbital. Cleve Foster was set to die for the 2002 slaying of a woman in Fort Worth.

CBSDFW.COM–2011/04/05

Tarrant County Murderer Seeks Delay Over New Execution Drug

A Texas inmate wants a judge to rule that the state has improperly switched to a new lethal injection drug. Cleve Foster is scheduled to die April 5 for the 2002 slaying of a Sudanese woman in Fort Worth.

CBSDFW.COM–2011/04/01