In January 2025, a group of 12 experts in public health and drug safety, including a former commissioner and principal deputy commissioner of the FDA, filed an amicus brief to…
Jennifer RobertsApril 2, 2025
Lethal injection issues were featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The segment focused on a company operating out of Connecticut which had supplied drugs for executions, allegedly in violation of federal…
Jennifer RobertsSeptember 27, 2024
This Fourth Edition of the State-by-State Risk Index serves as a guide for companies concerned about execution secrecy laws and the implications for commercial enterprises and public health. The Index…
Jennifer RobertsMay 2, 2024
The Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, recently held a press conference in which he confirmed that he expects there will be no further executions before he leaves office. In his…
Jennifer RobertsApril 17, 2024
On January 31, 2024, five manufacturers of medicines that are misused in lethal injection protocols collectively filed an amicus brief to state their deep concern about South Carolina’s secrecy law…
Jennifer RobertsApril 11, 2024
This Third Edition of the State-by-State Risk Index serves as a guide for companies concerned about execution secrecy laws and the implications for commercial enterprises and public health. The Index…
Jennifer RobertsFebruary 8, 2023
On 21 November, Alabama announced that all executions in the state will be halted pending a top to bottom review of the state’s execution protocol. The Governor directed the Attorney…
Jennifer RobertsNovember 25, 2022
In May 2022, Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee imposed an official moratorium on the death penalty while an independent review of the lethal injection protocol is carried out. This announcement…
Jennifer RobertsNovember 25, 2022
In March 2022, state officials in Louisiana said that they are unwilling to use manufactured medicines in lethal injection executions. Corrections Secretary James LeBlanc testified in court that the state…
Jennifer RobertsNovember 25, 2022
A federal judge in Las Vegas is holding a series of hearings to assess whether Nevada’s new lethal injection protocol is constitutional. Nevada officials are seeking to use an experimental…
Marta BylicaDecember 20, 2021
The House Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is demanding answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) about whether Biden administration officials have any plans to procure or use…
Marta BylicaDecember 16, 2021
A lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County District Court challenges the Oklahoma DOC’s refusal to disclose critical information about the substances used in the state’s lethal injection executions. The plaintiff, Fred…
Marta BylicaNovember 9, 2021
Oklahoma carried out its first lethal injection execution in more than six years. Despite a long and troubling history of botched lethal injections, and having previously rejected the method altogether,…
Marta BylicaOctober 28, 2021
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine granted four reprieves due to the unavailability of lethal injection drugs, continuing the state’s recent trend of postponing executions. According to a press release, these reprieves…
Marta BylicaSeptember 10, 2021
On July 1, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions and ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review policies and procedures governing the administration of…
Marta BylicaJuly 28, 2021
On June 24, 2021, Hikma Phamaceuticals USA Inc. (Hikma), a company that manufactures the anesthetic Ketamine, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, after it emerged that…
Marta BylicaJuly 28, 2021
On February 5, 2021, the Virginia House of Delegates voted to approve a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state and the state Senate approved a similar measure…
Marta BylicaFebruary 16, 2021
Documents obtained by the ethics watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and investigative journalists at ProPublica revealed the myriad ways in which the Trump administration has…
Marta BylicaFebruary 16, 2021
In December 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions and lawmakers must choose a different method of capital punishment if…
Marta BylicaFebruary 16, 2021