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Will Georgia continue to execute people using lethal injections?

Will Georgia continue to execute people using lethal injections?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in General » Crime
Settled on 08/19/2011 12:32 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:s, next execution uses lethal injection http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/roy-blankenship
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/andrew-deyoung

Predictions

Yes, next execution uses lethal injection
Yes, next execution uses lethal injection
No, next execution is by another method
No, next execution is by another method
No execution by the end of 2012
No execution by the end of 2012

Background

Some US states, including Arizona, California, Georgia and Tennessee, have obtained supplies of sodium thiopental from England, although the British government has since banned its export for use in executions. The Drug Enforcement Administration has now seized Georgia’s supply of a lethal injection drug because of questions about how it was imported.

Chuvalo Truesdell, an agency spokesman, said he did not know if other states’ supplies of the drug, sodium thiopental, were being collected. The seizure comes less than two months after a convicted killer was executed in Georgia, despite his raising questions about where the state had obtained the drug, an anesthetic, and whether it had expired.

Corrections officials released documents this year that showed Georgia obtained the drug from Link Pharmaceuticals, which was bought five years ago by Archimedes Pharma Ltd. Both are British companies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/us/16lethal.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gr7wKnuSk8kEVZUvZ3KF3BZBtufQ
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions

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   Super Userkruijs

Ohio executed Tuesday a man for beating a fellow inmate to death over changing a television channel, prison officials said.

Clarence Carter, 49, was the second inmate to be killed in Ohio using the surgical sedative pentobarbital alone rather than the usual concoction of lethal drugs due to a shortage in the United States. The sedative is usually used to euthanize animals.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gFIG8R5vAHYBtjFyg_Pk_imp6Dag

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