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| AZ and CA Team Up For Execution Drug |
| By azcentral.com |
| Published: 01/04/2011 |
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Like every state that uses lethal injection to execute death-row prisoners, California was having difficulty last September obtaining sodium thiopental, a sedative used in most execution protocols. Then, Arizona came to its aid, making a secret handoff of the drug that illustrates the paranoia and suspicion surrounding its importation. The mission was "very political and media-sensitive," one California prison official wrote to another, and needed to be carried out discreetly. Arizona had obtained sodium thiopental from a pharmaceutical-supply house in London, and was refusing to divulge its sources, spurring speculation it had skirted drug laws. In fact, FDA officials had signed off on the importation, even as a press officer in Washington, D.C., claimed that there were no approved means to import the drug. Read More. |
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