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Sodium Thiopental, Texas, and the State's Desire for Secrecy

By Steve Hall

Mike Ward has just posted, "Details on execution drugs should remain secret, prison officials say," at the Austin American-Statesman.  The print article will appear in tomorrow's newspaper.  It's a must-read: In a new push to keep confidential details about the drugs used in Texas executions, state prison officials are asking Attorney General Greg Abbott to declare the information a state secret. Details like how much of the three lethal drugs they keep on hand, whom the state buys the drugs from and how much taxpayers spend on them. Their reasoning: Making that information public might trigger violent protests outside the execution chamber in Huntsville or even embolden death penalty opponents, if they knew the state was about to run short of the drugs...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).