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When drugs used in executions stopped being produced in the US, prisons turned to the UK to find a new supply.
27 mar 2015 · Over the past few years, a shortage of sodium thiopental, a key drug in lethal injections, has left states scrambling for alternative ways to execute prisoners and has inspired some to...
30 lip 2013 · Several states are dealing with a shortage of lethal injection drugs and have had problems getting enough to carry out executions. In Georgia, lawmakers passed a measure that makes information...
12 kwi 2016 · Using a three-drug cocktail, state prisons carried out hundreds of lethal injections from 1982 to 2009, when the pharmaceutical company Hospira began having problems manufacturing one of those drugs, sodium thiopental.
10 lip 2020 · If the Trump administration carries out the first federal execution since 2003 on Monday, as scheduled, it will mark the culmination of a three-year campaign to line up a secret supply chain to...
27 sty 2011 · Will US states be forced to stop executing their death-row inmates by a drug embargo? And who decides which drugs are used to inject prisoners condemned to die? Nature explores an ethical...
30 kwi 2014 · A British anti-death penalty advocate discovered a Danish group was selling pentobarbital, a drug developed to treat epilepsy, to the U.S. for use in lethal injections
