Texas spent $1,273 on the pentobarbital used to execute Cary Kerr in May for raping and killing a woman 10 years ago. That's almost exactly how much the state spent on sodium thiopental for 17 executions in 2010, or $1,224.
Date: Jul 10, 2011
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Texas puts rapist Cary Kerr to death with new lethal injection cocktail
(CBS/AP) HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Cary Kerr, convicted of raping and strangling 34-year-old Pamela Horton in 2001, became the first inmate in Texas to be put to death using a new three-drug lethal injection cocktail.