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BREAKING: DEA seizes Georgia’s sodium thiopental

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From wire sources: The Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday seized Georgia’s supply of a key lethal injection drug less than two months after the state executed a man who unsuccessfully argued it was bought from a “fly-by-night” supplier in England. Agency spokesman Chuvalo Truesdell wouldn’t elaborate on exactly why the DEA wanted to inspect Georgia’s supply of sodium thiopental, a sedative that is part of a three-drug cocktail used in executions that has been in short supply since the sole U.S. manufacturer stopped making it. “We had questions about how the drug was imported to the U.S.,” he said. “There were concerns.”

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).