Officials with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services are keeping mum on who sold them the four drugs necessary to carry out lethal injection executions. The department has released such information in the past, but is refusing this time around.
Now, the department is saying that they don't have to reveal the supplier of the drugs, as the records are protected by client-attorney privilege. Earlier this year, Nebraska lawmakers presented legislation that would allow the department to conceal the suppliers' identities, but that bill has not passed yet.
On November 9th, the department notified death row inmate Jose Sandoval that they intend to execute him using a combination of the drugs Diazepam, Fentanyl Citrate, Cisatracurium Besylate and Potassium Chloride. Nebraska would be the first state to use this combination of drugs if the execution is carried out. Sandoval was responsible for the deaths of five people during a botched bank robbery in Norfolk in 2002.