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 ...

Fifteen states this week asked the U.S. Justice Department for help in obtaining the anesthesia drug sodium thiopental for use in executions, according to a Chicago Tribune report. A federal judge ...

Germany's leading medical association called Monday on the nation's pharmaceutical companies to refrain from selling a drug used in lethal injections to the United States. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, ...

The term "truth serum" refers to a number of mind-altering drugs. These drugs make you incapable of lying, or so the theory goes. Such mind-altering drugs do exist, but their effect isn't enough to ...

That's what the Associated Press, Austin-American Statesman and the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, want to know. Earlier this year, they filed public information act ...

A shield statute allows the state to withhold a telling piece of information: where Texas is finding a hard-to-get execution ...

The efficacy and safety of execution by lethal injection depends on the efficacy and safety of the drugs used to put people to death. But in the last few years, the process of procuring lethal ...

South Carolina obtained drugs from an unregulated pharmacy operating out of a driving school in London in 2010. In 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice said the Food and Drug Administration has no ...

Executions in Mississippi stalled after a lawsuit was filed, challenging Mississippi’s plan to use a new drug to render prisoners unconscious before injecting additional drugs to paralyze them and ...

Executions in Mississippi stalled after a lawsuit was filed, challenging Mississippi’s plan to use a new drug to render prisoners unconscious before injecting additional drugs to paralyze them and ...