Texas executes Yokamon Hearn with pentobarbitol

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Texas executes Yokamon Hearn with pentobarbitol

BBC – The US state of Texas has executed its first death row inmate with a single lethal injection of the sedative pentobarbital. Yokamon Hearn, 33, was convicted for the carjacking and murder of a Dallas stockbroker in 1998. Hearn is the sixth inmate to be killed this year in Texas, but the first after the state stopped using a cocktail of three lethal drugs for executions. Death penalty opponents say inmates die more slowly by the single-drug method. Read Article

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