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New California Litigation Over Lethal Injection Drug Source

By Steve Hall

California Watch reports, "ACLU sues state over lethal injection drug," by Ryan Gabrielson.  The filing, ACLU of Northern California v. CDCR, is in Adobe .pdf format. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this week seeking to force the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release records detailing how the agency obtained a key lethal injection drug. Officials have refused to disclose the source of the state's 12 grams of sodium thiopental. The anesthetic is the first of a fatal three-drug cocktail, used to render condemned inmates unconscious before the following two paralyze breathing and induce cardiac arrest. Sodium thiopental is in extremely short supply in the United States, prompting some states to share their reserves, or to purchase the drug from overseas...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).