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 ...

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 federal judge yesterday barred the use of sodium thiopental, an imported anesthetic administered to death row inmates prior to lethal injections, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report. U.S.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The sole U.S. manufacturer of a key lethal-injection drug said Friday that it is ending production because of death-penalty opposition overseas - a move that could delay executions ...

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 ...

Corrections officials across the country are looking for new options amid a dwindling supply of one of the three drugs used for lethal injections in most states. Thirty-five states carry out the death ...

THE purpose of this article is to summarize our experience with Pentothal Sodium anesthesia in neurologic surgery. Since this kind of anesthesia was first used in this clinic for pneumoencephalography ...

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 ...

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, ...

The famed chemical sodium pentothal, which is commonly known as truth serum, has been a mainstay of spy flicks for decades. In real life, scientists have tested it on spies, psychiatric patients, ...