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Daily Report: Public Safety

California resisting order to hand over lethal injection drug

May 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
California prison officials are trying to keep possession of a scarce lethal injection drug, contesting a federal court order making it illegal to use “foreign manufactured” sodium thiopental. In late 2010, California was one of several states scrambling for thiopental, an... + read more
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Daily Report: Public Safety

Attorneys seek to question Schwarzenegger over lethal drug

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... + read more
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