US seizes key execution drug in Georgia!

ATLANTA — The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Tuesday that the agency seized the state of Georgia's supply of a key lethal injection drug because of questions about how the stockpile was imported to the U.S.  DEA spokesman Chuvalo Truesdell said he didn't know if other states' supplies of sodium thiopental were being collected. The seizure comes less than two months after a convicted killer in Georgia was executed, despite raising questions about where the state had obtained the drug and whether or not it had expired. Truesdell wouldn't elaborate on exactly what worried the DEA. "We had questions about how the drug was imported to the U.S.," he said. "There were concerns." Georgia's stockpile of the drug has been a target of death row inmates and capital...

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Wrongful Conviction of Youth - Devontae Sanford

False confessions by dysfunctional people are a fact of life. Sanford's confession is about as probative as those given under torture during the Spanish Inquisition, so what gave it enough legs to land Sanford in prison on a guilty plea? The sorry answer is that it made things easy for the criminal justice system...

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State by State Database | Death Penalty Information Center

Check out CALI's death penalty statistics: State by State Database | Death Penalty Information Cente...

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Hip Hop & Politics: Privatization of Prisons

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Privatized Prisons and Prison Labor IS Slavery

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Lawsuit Challenges FDA's Inaction on Lethal Injection Drugs in Many States

On February 2, the national law firm of Sidley Austin LLP filed a suit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in federal court on behalf of six death row inmates from Arizona, California, and Tennessee.  The suit seeks to compel the FDA to bar the importation or use of unapproved sodium thiopental, a drug used by most states in lethal injections, but no longer available in the U.S.  The plaintiff's brief states that, following a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental in 2010, the FDA illegally allowed prison officials to obtain the lethal injection drug from sources outside of the U.S., while refusing to investigate the safety and purity of the imported drugs.  The inmates are represented by Bradford A. Berenson, a former associate counsel to President...

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Death Penalty Documentary: Execution Tour of NC Death Row

The following can be found at: http://prisonrideshare.ning.com/ A death penalty documentary short film (10 minutes) by Scott Langley. The warden of North Carolina's Central Prison (Marvin Polk) narrates the preparation and final hours before a state execution in Raleigh, where the execution facilities are locat...

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