April 11, 2011, 12:05 AM
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s supply of a key lethal injection drug is lab-certified as sterile and sufficiently potent. Prison officials sent off a share of their sodium thiopental for testing in January to confirm the drug was manufactured properly. The...
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February 4, 2011, 12:05 AM
For months, officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have faced a stream of questions about their 521 grams of sodium thiopental, a key lethal injection drug. And now attorneys representing death row inmates want to put former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger under...
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January 11, 2011, 12:05 AM
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...
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January 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
California’s corrections department appears to have received a key lethal injection drug via a London wholesaler working out of a driving school’s office. The Arizona Department of Corrections bought sodium thiopental from Dream Pharma Ltd., according to a Sept. 28 invoice obtained...
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December 17, 2010, 12:05 AM
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a secret lethal injection drug supplier. This anonymous exporter is a British company (price quotes are in “pounds sterling”), apparently based in London. It has experience moving pharmaceuticals through U.S. Customs...
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November 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
Sodium thiopental, the anesthetizing agent used in the nation’s three-drug lethal injection cocktail, is hard to come by these days. Attorney General Jerry Brown recently disclosed that the state has enough for just four executions. Death penalty opponents want to know where it came from...
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January 14, 2010, 12:10 AM
If you're a numbers geek, the U.S. Department of Justice has released a report containing a series of data tables which help provide a picture of the inmates executed or who remain on death row as of Dec. 31, 2008. The report is part of the DOJ's Capital Punishment Series. In California, 669...
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