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Arkansas Legislator Warns Execution Secrecy Measure Will Harm Companies; Fuel Black Market For Drugs

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…

Pauline AssarssonApril 24, 2019

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Makers of Ohio Death Drugs Oppose Their Use in Executions

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…

Pauline AssarssonApril 23, 2019

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Drugmakers Object to Arkansas Execution Secrecy Measure

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…

Pauline AssarssonApril 23, 2019

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Ohio Governor Issues Reprieve To Death Row Inmate Due To Concerns About Execution Drugs; Orders Review of Lethal Injection Drug Protocol

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…

Lethal Injection Information CenterJanuary 25, 2019

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Healthcare Expert: “Texas Pharmacies Willing to Kill Put Us All at Risk”

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…

Lethal Injection Information CenterDecember 17, 2018

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Supreme Court Troubled by Planned Use of Lethal Injection To Execute Prisoner With Rare Condition

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…

Pauline AssarssonNovember 6, 2018

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Nevada District Judge Halts Use of Alvogen’s Drugs in Lethal Injection Executions

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…

Pauline AssarssonSeptember 25, 2018

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When Government Agencies Turn To Unregulated Drug Sources: Implications for the Drug Supply Chain and Public Health Are Grave

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…

Lethal Injection Information CenterSeptember 1, 2018

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Arkansas abandons search for execution drugs; puts executions on hold

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…

Lethal Injection Information CenterJuly 18, 2018

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Nevada Execution Is Blocked After Drugmaker Sues

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…

Lethal Injection Information CenterJuly 11, 2018

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