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| CA Drug Supplier To Stay Secret |
| By californiawatch.org |
| Published: 01/11/2011 |
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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation doesn’t have to release the names of its lethal injection drug suppliers, a state judge ruled on Monday. But prison officials might have to produce their communications with former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his aides about California’s international search for sodium thiopental. That search ran from August to October – with calls to hospitals, other states and, at one point, someone in Pakistan – before the corrections department received 12 grams of the anesthetic from Arizona. The department later purchased another 521 grams from a British vendor that it refuses to identify. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has sued the prison system, seeking the release of public records related to the acquisition of the lethal injection drug. The state has released more than 1,000 pages of internal communications. Officials have blacked out identifying information on many documents. Read More. |
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