By C1 Staff
PHOENIX — Newly released, 1,300-plus pages of documents don’t hold many answers regarding the execution of Joseph Wood.
Arizona Family reports that specific information for drugs used and their sources is redacted in the documents.
A formal investigation found that Department of Corrections staff did nothing wrong during the execution, where Woods was said to have gasped for air for two hours before his death.
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Many pharmaceutical companies don’t want to be associated with capital punishment, making it difficult for the DOC to get ahold of the drugs.
On one occasion in 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration told the state not to use the drug sodium thiopental after it was discovered that the DOC was importing it outside the Controlled Substance Act.