OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office acknowledges it erred in a court filing with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving a challenge to the state's lethal injection formula.
In a letter to the nation's highest court on Wednesday, Oklahoma Solicitor General Patrick Wyrick says he inadvertently cited a letter as having been sent to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The letter was actually sent to the Texas Department of Corrections.
The state used the letter from a compounding pharmacy in Texas to bolster its argument that it has been unable to obtain a more effective drug to use to execute inmates.
During oral arguments in the case last month, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told Wyrick she was "substantially disturbed" about unsupported statements in his legal brief.