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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

First, more reporting on the California FOIA document release -- this from Rina Palta at KALW-FM's Informant, "Timeline: California?s scramble for execution drugs." The documents, products of a Public Records Act lawsuit filed by the organization in November, indicate that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation started worrying about its supply of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic used to put an inmate to sleep before administering lethal drugs, in August. In May, Hospira, the sole US manufacturer of the drug announced they were short raw materials to make the drug and wouldn?t be able to produce it in the near future. At the time, there hadn?t been an execution scheduled in California since 2006. Nevertheless, CDCR officials were on the lookout for supplies of the execution drug?a search that would eventually take them through Texas, Arizona, England, and Pakistan...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2010 (boomark / email).