Supreme Court Stays First Pentobarbital Execution — Death Penalty | The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court Stays First Pentobarbital Execution — Death Penalty The Texas Tribune: "The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 30-day stay for death row inmate Cleve Foster, who was scheduled tonight to become the first Texas inmate executed using the state's new three-drug lethal injection cocktail. Although Foster's attorneys have challenged the drug change in court, the Supreme Court action today was not based on the state's new drug protocol. The court granted Foster a rehearing in a separate challenge to his sentence claiming that the state-appointed attorney who represented his appeals was ineffective. Foster appealed his original death sentence, arguing that he was innocent and that his roommate, who was also convicted and died in prison, was to blame for the rape and murder of a Fort Worth woman."