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Georgia Lethal Injection News Coverage

By Steve Hall

"Georgia May Have Broken Law By Importing Drug," is the NPR report by Kathy Lohr. There's been a lot of secrecy surrounding how states have been getting sodium thiopental since a U.S. company stopped making the sedative in 2009. Records show Georgia bought the drug from an English distributor, Dream Pharma. In court, the Georgia Department of Corrections said it was not worried about the quality of its supply. But defense attorneys got records that showed the state may have violated federal law in obtaining the drug. "Georgia has engaged in a pattern of illegality and shady misconduct to get drugs to execute people," says William Montross, an attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. Montross says that Georgia bought sodium thiopental from a secondary distributor, a company that operated out of the back of a London driving school...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).