article_snippet: The passage of the bill by the state Senate on Tuesday the bill by the state Senate on Tuesday the state Senate Tuesday comes as states struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage.
article_snippet: States across the country have struggled to keep up States across the country drug inventories as European manufacturers have refused to sell the lethal concoctions to prisons and corrections departments because of prisons and corrections departments opposition to the death penalty.
article_snippet: The Texas' deadline is the most imminent, but other states are struggling, as well.
highlights_snippet: The passage of the bill by the state Senate on Tuesday comes as states struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage .
  