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Virginia won’t say how much it would pay secret supplier for lethal injection drugs
By dailyprogress.com- Frank Green
Published: 09/16/2016

It’s unlikely there are many state contracts as peculiar as the one between the Virginia Department of Corrections and a secret vendor.

The contract — a memorandum of agreement obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch under the Freedom of Information Act — states that it is “for the purchase of drugs to be used exclusively for implementing the lawful order of the court for a death sentence by lethal injection in the commonwealth.”

A Virginia law that took effect July 1 keeps the identity of the supplier secret, and the Department of Corrections will not even reveal what the vendor is charging to provide Virginia a product or products specified only for use in executions.

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