Posted on 03/16/2011 4:40:25 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
The Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday seized the state of 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 Britain.
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."
No more execution dates in Georgia have been scheduled and it's unlikely any will be set before the issue is resolved. Georgia Attorney General's Office spokeswoman Lauren Kane said prosecutors couldn't ask a judge to set executions if corrections officials didn't have the necessary supplies to carry one out.
Georgia's stockpile of the drug has been a target of death row inmates and capital punishment critics because corrections officials released documents this year showing the state obtained the drug from Link Pharmaceuticals, a firm purchased five years ago by Archimedes Pharma Limited. Both are British firms.
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Makes sense. If we can’t import cheap drugs to save lives, why should we be able to import cheap drugs to kill?
We’re worried if our drugs are safe for killing people?
I know, right? George Carlin (I miss George) joked about how they would swab the prisoner’s arm before the injections.
Strange frigging world. Bring back hanging. Quicker, and generally effective as all get out if properly done.
I believe that New Hampshire is the last state to still have hanging as their method of capital punishment. Last one was in the 40’s. I think Utah still gives a choice between gas, electrocution and firing squad. I saw someone killed by firing squad in the 70's on tv.
Ha! I didn’t notice the lightbulbs! WTH?
Concern about how “the drug was imported”? Who cares?
Where was the CONCERN about the murdered victims?
No doubt Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (Drug Czar), is behind DEA effort to circumvent death penalty.
You would think that there would be a 10th Amendment challenge to the DEA's presumed authority - didn't Prohibition of Alcohol require a Constitutional Amendment?
Next time Georgia should get their drugs from Mexico since everyone knows that the only thing crossing the border is guns. Getting them there means that their stockpiles don't exist to the Fe'ral Government.
"These aren't the drugs you are looking for..."
They currently have only one individual on death row.
Just use a guillotine. Show it on public access TV as an example to those who would commit heinous crimes.
Don’t use that stuff for executing criminals until the FDA assures us it is safe?
Back to rope and bullets! No need for FDA testing.
Or just use the same method of death the criminal used on his victims.
I guess Georgia will just have to dust off the old electric chair.
I’m cool with this. I’d rather hang or fry ‘em anyway.
Bring back the gallows and the electric chair.
You’ve probably seen “Link” if you’ve scrutinized the fine print on many over the counter generic knockoffs of brand name nostrums.
You can electrocute and hang simultaneously.............can’t miss that way..............
My only question is what is the DEA doing “seizing” anything from State officials of the Sovereign State of Georgia? If they want us to stop using something they need to eithere ask or get a court order. I think some of us GA citizens need to contact Nathan Deal and ask him that question.
They want to make it impossible to kill a condemned prisoner through a tsunami of red tape. It'll be on the books but just never happen.
Today California has 713 (give or take) on death row. We have several (nearly a dozen?) still there since Jimmy Carter was president! We've managed to carry out just 13 sentences in 30 yrs.
56 on death row have died of "other causes" including 14 suicides. Even they got tired of waiting!
Just when it looked like we might get started again on the backlog, a judge (Jeremy D. Fogel) ruled lethal injection was "cruel and unusual," demanded we build a special room for that (cost almost $1m) and wanted a doctor involved in each execution (hippocratic oath be damned).
After nearly FIVE years of delays and an appeals court nudging, the judge appeared satisfied only for our state's supply of sodium thiopental to expire! We've not been able to secure new supply. We couldn't borrow it from another state and were prevented from using a UK supplier like Georgia did.
While millions of babies are happily poisoned, stabbed or dismembered, the most heinous of criminals, condemned by a jury of their peers, go without justice served.
(If I was Georgia gov)Dear 'mr' DEA,
We won't use any more 'bad imported drugs' to execute CONDEMNED MURDERS.
We'll just put a good ole American Made .44 Magnum JHP into the back of their HEAD instead. And naturally 'mr' DEA, by using a good ole American Made handgun.
Have a nice day.
regards,
The Governor of Georgia
cc: Barry Obama, Eric Holder
Your solution is the right one. Shoot the bastards. The lawyers are getting rich, the criminals are not being executed and the victims are left to twist in the wind.
Ridiculous.
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