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FILE - Convicted killer Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas who was scheduled to die April 9, 2014, is shown in this file image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction halting the executions of Hernandez-Llanas and Tommy Lynn Sells, a convicted serial killer who was set to die Thursday, April 3, 2014. U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore declared that the state's prison system must disclose to defense attorneys more information about the supplier of a new batch of lethal-injection drugs.(AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)

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This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows convicted killer Tommy Lynn Sells, who had been set to die Thursday, April 3, 2014. A federal judge on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, issued a temporary injunction stopping the lethal injection saying justice department officials must disclose information to the Sells' lawyers about the supplier of a new batch of drugs that would be used to kill him. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

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FILE - Convicted killer Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas is shown in this file image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, two days before Texas is scheduled to execute Hernandez-Llanas, its first inmate with a new batch of lethal injection drugs obtained last month, the state prison agency again is seeking to keep the source of the drugs secret, citing threats of violence to pharmacies that sell drugs used in lethal injections. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)

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FILE - This Aug. 9, 2011, file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Huntsville, Texas. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says Jeffs is no longer hospitalized and has been returned to prison in East Texas. Agency spokesman Robert Hurst confirmed Thursday, March 27, 2014, that Jeffs was discharged from Hospital Galveston, a TDCJ facility southeast of Houston. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)

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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Anthony Doyle. Attorneys for Doyle, who is was sentenced to death for Thursday, March 27, 2014, for the fatal beating a food delivery person, Hyun Mi Cho, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his punishment. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

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CORRECTS DATE TO MARCH 19 - This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Ray Jasper III. Jasper, convicted in the 1998 murder of David Alejandro, is set for lethal injection Wednesday evening, March 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

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This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jerry Hartsfield. Hartsfield has been locked up for more than three decades for a slaying even though the state's top appeals court ruled in 1980 that Hartsfield, who is serving a life sentence, doesn't have a valid murder conviction. His attorneys are asking a state district judge to dismiss the charge and free him because his constitutional right to a speedy trial has been violated. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

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This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows capital murder defendant Suzanne Basso. On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014 Basso, 59, is scheduled to die for for the torture slaying of Louis “Buddy” Musso, a mentally impaired man near Houston more than 15 years ago.(AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)