On September 28, 2018 a District Court judge in Nevada granted a preliminary injunction to American pharmaceutical company Alvogen, prohibiting the use of the company’s drugs in lethal injection executions…
Journal of the American Pharmacists Association - September 2018 by Prashant Yadav, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School; Rebecca Lynn Weintraub, MD, Assistant Professor of…
Arkansas prison officials announced earlier this month that they were halting their search for lethal injection drugs, a move that means that the state is unlikely to put any inmates…
On July 10th, 2018, the American pharmaceuticals company Alvogen sued the state of Nevada to prevent the use of its medicines in an upcoming execution. The lawsuit sought the return…
The American pharmaceutical company Alvogen has sued the state of Nevada to prevent the use of its medicines in the execution of Scott Dozier, which is scheduled for tomorrow. Lawyers…
Following a similar announcement by Oklahoma in March of 2018, Alabama has become the second state to make the decision to move away from lethal injection in upcoming executions. On…
In March 2018, Oklahoma became the first state to categorically reject lethal injection as a method of execution, moving to a new method of execution using nitrogen gas. In abandoning…
It is time to debunk the myth that lethal injection is a humane procedure, and remove medicines from the capital punishment process, says Maya Foa, director of Reprieve, an international…
Universal consensus is a rare thing. Universal consensus amongst rivals companies in a highly competitive industry is almost unheard of. So the point we have now reached in the debate…
Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest healthcare company, has hit out at plans by the US state of Florida to execute a prisoner on death row using an experimental lethal…