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Office of the U.S. anti-drug confiscated stocks of thiopental sodium, which is intended to be used for executions in the state of Georgia. On Wednesday reported the Associated Press referring to the representative government. The authorities suspect that the drug was imported into the country illegally. The interlocutor of agency has failed to respond to the question whether the seized stocks of thiopental sodium in other states. The most recent executions by lethal injection was carried out in Georgia in January 2011. Then, recalls, agency observers raised the question had not expired if the expiration date of the drug and, if it was a recent production, where it came from the authorities. However, in the bodies of Corrections Georgia stated that the quality of drugs for lethal injection they do not cause concern. Lack of sodium thiopental began in the U.S. after the September 2010 of its production at a single enterprise in the country Hospira stopped. Then it was reported that the supply will not resume until at least May 2011. The death penalty by lethal injection used in 33 U.S. states.
