WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, on behalf of six death-row prisoners from California, Arizona, and Tennessee, Sidley Austin LLP filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking to ...

Death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown was given until noon Sunday to decide what method of lethal injection the state should use to end his life – a single drug or three-drug cocktail. He refused.

The last-minute legal maneuverings over the pending execution of Albert Brown in California this past week put a spotlight on sodium thiopental, one of drugs used in lethal injection executions.

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A shortage of a drug used in executions in the United States has sent U.S. states scrambling to find supplies, or alternative drugs. Among the 35 states in which capital punishment is legal, ...

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Several notable anesthesiologists discussed the difference between sodium thiopental, a drug traditionally used in lethal injections, and a three-drug cocktail containing pentobarbital, according to a ...

Some states are delaying executions because of a shortage of sodium thiopental, a drug used as an anesthetic and given to prisoners during lethal injections. It's one of three drugs used for lethal ...

I’ve just seen this news report saying that the UK government has decided to put export controls in place on sodium thiopental, a drug that is used in executions by lethal injection in the United ...