In May 2019, the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published an opinion determining that drugs intended for use in lethal injections are not…
On November 20, 2019, the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction barring the Federal Government from carrying out four executions scheduled for December 2019…
Ohio’s Governor DeWine announced on August 1, 2019 that he will be delaying the execution of Warren Henness in the state due to challenges in obtaining execution drugs and the…
A secrecy bill that would have rendered confidential information about the source of the state’s execution drugs stalled earlier this year in Louisiana’s Senate judiciary committee following engagement by pharmaceutical…
In a hearing in the Arkansas House Judiciary Committee earlier this month for a bill seeking to shield the states’ drug supplies in secrecy, Representative Andrew Collins raised concerns that…
Several companies that manufacture drugs used in the Ohio death penalty have spoken out in opposition to the misuse of their products in executions, raising more questions about whether the…
Two pharmaceutical companies, Hikma Pharmaceuticals and Fresenius Kabi USA, have objected to legislative efforts to expand the secrecy surrounding the source of Arkansas’ lethal injection drugs, saying the proposal would…
On January 25, 2019, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued a temporary reprieve to death row inmate Warren Henness in response to a judicial ruling that Ohio’s lethal injection cocktail will…
by Prahsant Yadav Read more at the Houston Chronicle When we’re sick, we are at our most vulnerable. So, it’s vitally important that we can trust the medicines our doctors…
At oral arguments in Bucklew v. Precythe on November 6, 2018, Supreme Court Justices appeared troubled that a lethal injection execution could cause “gruesome and brutal pain” for a Missouri…