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| CA Can Now Remove 4 From Death Row |
| By latimes.com |
| Published: 11/08/2010 |
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In a padlocked refrigerator behind San Quentin State Prison's death chamber, 12 grams of scarce sodium thiopental is available to carry out up to four executions. How the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation acquired the drug is both a mystery and an apparent impediment to its use. Legal analysts and human rights advocates contend that the state must have gotten the drug from a foreign producer because all stocks made by Hospira Inc. of Lake Forest, Ill., have expired, or will soon expire, and the drug's sole U.S. manufacturer can't make more, reportedly because of a raw-material supply issue. In a legal filing to a federal judge reviewing the state's new lethal injection procedures, the office of Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown disclosed last month that it had obtained 12 grams of sodium thiopental with a 2014 expiration date. Read More. |
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