With the proliferation of heroin, cocaine and meth, you would think the Drug Enforcement Administration had better things to do than to seize Georgia’s supply of a key execution drug because the state may have obtained it on the black market.
It is no secret that there has been a severe shortage of sodium thiopental, one of three drugs making up a lethal-injection cocktail, since the sole U.S. manufacturer stopped making it. The states of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia and Tennessee have turned to English suppliers for the drug.
On March 15, the DEA seized Georgia’s supply of sodium thiopental that had been obtained from Link Pharmaceuticals. Lawyers representing death row inmates claim Link is a British "fly-by-night" supplier of the lethal injection drug.
It appears that Georgia failed to register sodium thiopental for importation with the DEA.
According to a DEA spokesman, "We had questions about how the drug was imported to the U.S. There were concerns."
The DEA seems to have lost it’s way. The DEA should exercise its enforcement activities exclusively with the importation, manufacture and distribution of heroin, cocaine, meth and other illegal drugs.
It is really touching that the DEA is concerned about the possibility that sodium thiopental imported for use in executions of cold blooded killers may not be of the purest quality. Oh my God, heaven forbid!
I cannot fathom that the DEA took it upon itself to seize Georgia’s supply of sodium thiopental. It must have been ordered to do so by higher-ups in the Justice Department - higher-ups with a liberal anti-death penalty ideation.
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