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California's Scramble for Lethal Injection Drug

By Steve Hall

The ACLU of Northern California has released documents obtained from the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation through a Freedom of Information Act request.  The webpage is titled, "CDCR's December 8, 2010 Response to ACLU Public Records Act Request: ACLU v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation." On November 17, 2010, the ACLU-NC filed a suit under the California Public Records Act to demand records from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) about its recent acquisition of sodium thiopental, a controlled substance used as part of California?s lethal injection protocol for executing death row inmates.  Click to read the case summary and view legal documents » On December 8, 2010 the ACLU-NC received documents from the CDCR, which we have scanned and provided here in batches of about 50 pages...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).