Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit’s main hallway on July 12, 2017.(Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune)
ROSHARON — Just 30 miles south of the urban epicenter of Houston, the scene around one of Texas’ oldest maximum-security prisons has a much more rustic quality.

Leg tie downs on the gurney in the execution room at the Oregon State Penitentiary, in Salem, Ore. (AP/Rick Bowmer)
(REPORT) — Texas on Tuesday sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for what it says is an “unreasonable delay” in deciding whether to allow the delivery of execution drugs from India. The lawsuit comes more than 17 months after the FDA seized 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental at a Houston airport.