BuzzFeed - Oklahoma heavily redacted a letter that was sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ? but told the high court that it was actually sent to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Oklahoma attorney general's office misrepresented the facts behind a key argument about the availability of certain execution drugs in its filings at the U.S. Supreme Court, BuzzFeed News has determined. The false statement â which relates to discontinued availability of the drug pentobarbital â is clear from a review of previous court filings and comments from the lawyer for a pharmacy that the state claimed had previously supplied for its lethal injections. In the state's brief to the justices, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office highlights a letter that the lawyers describe as having been sent to state officials. That letter is rea
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