- Texas on Tuesday carried out its first execution using a sedative often used to euthanize animals.
Cary Kerr, 46, was put to death by lethal injection for the 2001 sexual assault and strangling of Pamela Horton.
The new drug, pentobarbital, replaced sodium thiopental in Texas' three-drug execution protocol.
Kind of appropriate that what is essentially an animal tranquilizer is used to put down two-legged animals. The execution went flawlessly and chances of recidivism are now zero.