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Lawsuit Filed In Georgia Over Foreign Sodium Thiopental

By Steve Hall

"Ga. inmate's lawsuit claims execution drug expired," is the AP report by Greg Bluestein, via Google News.  It's also available via the Los Angeles Times. A death row inmate's federal lawsuit claims Georgia's stockpile of a key lethal injection drug has expired, and he's asking a judge to halt an execution he says may cause him to die in excruciating pain. The lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of Roy Willard Blankenship raises new questions about Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental, a sedative that has been in short supply even before the drug's sole U.S. manufacturer decided last month to stop producing it. "No matter where Georgia obtained its supply of the drug, the drug is almost certainly expired and no longer effective," said the lawsuit, which was filed in U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 14, 2011 (boomark / email).