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DEA seizes execution drug from Georgia death row prison.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by novelist_wannabe, Mar 15, 2011.

  1. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Apparently the state wasn't completely on the up-and-up as to how it acquired its lethal injection drugs.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/dea-seizes-georgias-supply-873788.html
     
    novelist_wannabe, Mar 15, 2011
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  2. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Do I have this right?

    Georgia is importing drugs illegally to execute law-breaking citizens. Huh?

    The Georgia Department of Corrections appears to have violated the federal Controlled Substance Act,” John Bentivoglio, a former associate deputy U.S. attorney general in Washington, wrote in a letter Thursday.

    Bentivoglio describes extraordinary steps Corrections took to get the sedative thiopental, a scheduled III non-narcotic controlled substance, when a shipment for several states, including Georgia, was held by U.S. Customs in Memphis last summer.

    That sounds like drug smuggling to me.

    Who goes to jail here?
     
    JR, Mar 15, 2011
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  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    So are they going to have to bring back the electric chair or start hanging people again?
     
    Smallpotatoes, Mar 16, 2011
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