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Defense lawyers in three states urging DOJ to look into execution drug sources

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP article, "attorneys in Arizona and Kentucky joined a lawyer in Georgia on Tuesday, calling on the Justice Department to investigate how the states acquired a key lethal injection drug that is in short supply in the U.S."  Here is more: The requests come as many of the 34 death penalty states scrambling to find an alternative for lethal injections after the sole U.S. maker of sodium thiopental said earlier this year it would no longer produce it.  Justice Department officials didn't immediately return telephone calls Tuesday, but previously have said they were reviewing a request for an investigation an attorney in Georgia.  Drug Enforcement Administration officials confirmed a week ago they had seized Georgia's supply of the drug...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).