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Ga. Inmates Try To Block Execution Because Of Drug

February 15th, 2013 9:59 pm Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three death row inmates in Georgia are seeking a court order that would prevent the state from using a drug to execute them without a doctor’s prescription.

The inmates, two of whom are to be executed next week, asked a federal judge in Washington on Friday to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration to prevent the use of pentobarbital in lethal injections.

The inmates, Warren Lee Hill, Andrew Allen Cook and Marcus Wellons, argue that the Georgia Department of Corrections’ use of the drug without a doctor’s prescription violates the federal Controlled Substances Act.

Hill and Cook are scheduled to be executed next week. Wellons’ execution date has not been set.

Hill and Cook were each sentenced to death for killings. Wellons was sentenced for raping and killing a teenager.



  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PMVMZMDLRQL3TRK5RNOHJVZPHU stoptheinsanity

    These inmates are something else. They committed the horrific crimes of murder. Now they are cowering like the whimpering cowards that they are. At least, they got to live many more more years in prison. That’s a lot more time than they gave their victims. We, as a society, need to stop coddling and sympathizing with murderers. They made the decisions to commit these murders. Now they need to pay the piper. I once lived in a neighborhood where my next door neighbors were violently murdered. Their murderer is still sitting on Georgia’s death row. He gets to live many years on death row, subsidized by the tax payer. His victims’ lives were cut short. Their family will suffer a lifetime of pain and suffering because of this murderer’s action. If these three death row inmates are so much against the use of lethal injections to bring about their deaths, would they prefer the electric chair, hanging, or death in front of a firing squad? I don’t think so! The Bible says that “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed:” Genesis 9:6a. This was the dispensation or beginning age of human government which God instituted. God gave human government the power to utilize capital punishment. For those who would argue otherwise, the new testament came to fulfill the old testament, not to erradicate it. Sin still has consequences. We either pay the price ourselves or let God pay it as our sin bearer. However, on earth, there are laws that govern human behavior in a society. Breaking these laws require consequences. The consequences for murder, sometimes, is the death penalty. I seriously doubt that the Georgia Supreme court will find any validity in these three inmates’ request. I believe that their executions will go on as planned unless there is a stay of execution for some other reason. I don’t think that the invalidity of the use of lethal injections will be the issue.