BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Corrections has placed a deposit for a lethal dose of a drug that will be used in the execution of convicted killer Todd Wessinger, court filings note.
A declaration from DOC Secretary Gary Wescott dated Wednesday says that the state has secured a supplier for 15 grams of pentobarbital to execute Wessinger, who was convicted of killing two restaurant employees during a 1995 robbery in Baton Rouge.
He has been on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola since his conviction…