A topic that is extremely controversial in today’s society is the death penalty. Two weeks ago, a man in Oklahoma was executed using a three part drug that was supposed to shut down different parts of the body. It left a convicted murder writhing and moaning before he died of cardiac arrest. This type of lethal injection was said to have gone wrong. The next execution is to take place May 13, 2014; Texas will execute another man.

Lawyers for Mr. Campbell are trying to use his awful death to stop execution in Texas. Texas has the nation’s highest death row rate especially in a town in East Texas, north of Houston, hundreds have been executed, they like to say they do things just right.

For two years now, Texas has used a single drug, the barbiturate pentobarbital, instead of the three-drug regimen used in neighboring Oklahoma. Their rate for this is so successful that prison administrators from other states often travel hundred of miles to see how the procedure is conducted. Texas officials have, on few occasions, gone to other states and helped administer the lethal injection but mostly give guidance to other prisons.

Huntsville is the known as capital of capital punishment. 515 men and women Texas have been executed since 1982 by lethal injection and  361 inmates were electrocuted from 1924 to 1964 were killed here in the same prison in the same town, at the red brick Walls Unit. Because of this, Texas accounts for nearly 40 percent of the nation’s executions.

So  many people have been put to death that in January of 2000 seven people were killed in 15 days, and no one noticed. It has little effect on the people of Texas.

Mr. Campbell’s case has been brought up to one of the US District courts but Texas argues that its drug is different and when you do something for such a long time you get good at it. They require at least one medically trained doctor in the death chamber.

Lethal injection will always be a controversial topic but Texas takes extra percaution when conducting such a serious procedure.