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| The drugs to execute criminals could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, California prison agency records show |
| By latimes.com- Maura Dolan |
| Published: 05/11/2016 |
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Internal California prison agency records suggest the state might have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy execution drugs for lethal injection, according to documents released Tuesday by a civil liberties group. Public records obtained by the ACLU of Northern California show that prison officials were busy in 2014 trying to find suppliers of execution drugs, which many manufacturers have refused to sell to authorities for the purpose of lethal injection. At the time, court rulings had blocked executions, and the state planned to propose a new single-drug execution method. The last execution in California occurred in 2006. A May 2014 email obtained in the public records by the ACLU said a compounding pharmacy agreed to provide pentobarbital, one of four proposed execution drugs, at an initial cost of $500,000 — and only if the company's name was not released to the public. Read More. |
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