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California Officials Release Some Drug Information

By Steve Hall

Carol Williams posts, "California now has enough drugs to execute 175 death row inmates," at the Los Angeles Times.  A correction revises the estimate in the headline, however. Corrections officials told a federal judge Tuesday that they have imported enough sodium thiopental from Arizona and Britain to execute 175 death row prisoners. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation last month purchased 521 grams of the drug from Archimedes Pharma for $36,415, said department spokeswoman Terry Thornton. Prison officials also acquired 12 grams of the drug at no cost from the Arizona Department of Corrections on Sept. 30, Thornton said. The source of the execution drug was disclosed in a report to U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose after the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California made a public records request and a San Francisco judge gave corrections officials until Tuesday to explain where it got the drug no longer available from the sole U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 08, 2010 (boomark / email).