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DEA Seizes Georgia Stock of Imported Sodium Thiopental

By Steve Hall

The updated AP report is, "Ga. executions off: DEA seizes critical drug," via Google News.  It's also available via Forbes. All Georgia executions are off after federal drug agents seized the state's supply of a sedative used in lethal injections that has been challenged by capital punishment critics and death-row inmates, including a man recently executed who called the British exporter of the drug a "fly-by-night supplier." Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Chuvalo Truesdell wouldn't say exactly why Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental was taken Tuesday, just that "we had questions about how the drug was imported to the U.S." The sedative is part of a three-drug cocktail used in executions that has been in short supply since the sole U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).