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"DEA seizes Georgia's supply of lethal injection drug"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this notable new article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the latest chapter in the seemingly never saga over lethal injection drugs and protocols.  Here is how the piece starts: The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized Georgia's supply of a key execution drug over questions about how it was imported to the United States.  "Drugs were seized today by the DEA from our facility in Jackson," Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kristen Stancil told the AJC. The seizure comes more than two weeks after an attorney representing a death row inmate from Cobb County wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder saying the Georgia Department of Corrections circumvented federal law in trying to quickly secure a scarce drug used in lethal injections...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).