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All Ga. Executions On Hold After DEA Seizes Critical Drug

ATLANTA -- All Georgia executions are off after federal drug agents seized the state's supply of a sedative used in lethal injections that has been challenged by capital punishment critics and death-row inmates, including a man recently executed who called the British exporter of the drug a "fly-by-night supplier." Drug...

Seven Men Accused of Conspiring to Aid Taliban

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged seven people, including two U.S. citizens, with conspiring to support Taliban militants in Afghanistan, officials said. The two Americans have been identified as Alwar Pouryan and Oded Orbach. The others are identified in court documents as Maroun Saade, Walid Nasr, Corneille...

Oxycodone Intoxication: 5 Facts About What Killed Adrienne Martin

Adrienne Martin, the 27-year-old girlfriend of beer magnate August Busch IV, died from accidental oxycodone intoxication. That's the conclusion of the St. Louis County Chief Medical Examiner, which released its report on Martin's December 2010 death today. What is oxycodone, and when is it lethal? Surge Desk found...

DEA Cracks Down on Synthetic Pot

(Nov. 24) -- The Drug Enforcement Administration will ban the sale of five chemicals used to make synthetic marijuana as part of a crackdown on the manufactured high. The ban on the synthetic pot ingredients will go into effect in 30 days, the DEA said in a statement. The chemicals are JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200,...

Accused 'Merchant of Death' Arms Dealer Has Day in Court

(Nov. 17) -- In the eyes of Russian officials, Viktor Bout is an innocent businessman being railroaded -- quite contrary to the American view that he's a cunning and dangerous arms dealer worthy of the moniker "Merchant of Death." Clad in black T-shirt and black sweat pants, Bout briefly appeared this afternoon in U.S....

Background on Drug Enforcement Administration

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States.

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