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New Documents on California Lethal Injection Drug Search

By Steve Hall

Today's Sacramento Bee reports, "Documents reveal California's desperate search for execution drug."  It's written by Sam Stanton. Desperately seeking a drug that would allow them to execute a death row inmate last fall, California prison officials scoured the nation for a dose of it, calling dozens of hospitals, local surgery centers, the Department of Veterans Affairs and other states for help, newly released documents show.The documents, released late Tuesday as a result of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, reveal new details of how California sought to cajole the governor of Texas to lend the state a supply of sodium thiopental. At one point, California considered buying a batch from a supplier in Pakistan, previously released documents state...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).