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…
Blaire AndresJuly 10, 2018
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…
Blaire AndresMarch 1, 2018
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…
Blaire AndresJanuary 10, 2018
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…
Blaire AndresOctober 20, 2017
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…
Blaire AndresAugust 21, 2017
On August 14, 2017, a group of pharmacists submitted a public comment to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), raising "grave concerns with the California Department of Corrections…
Blaire AndresAugust 14, 2017
During a public hearing in 2017, Virginia Governor-elect Ralph Northam recognised the concerns of the healthcare industry about the misuse of medicines in executions, stating that “the pharmaceutical companies, the…
Blaire AndresJuly 7, 2017
Study shows four states that adhere to capital punishment are hoarding stashes of medicines that could otherwise treat patients in life-or-death procedures.
Blaire AndresApril 20, 2017
A US healthcare giant has accused the state of Arkansas of effectively lying to it over the sale of a pharmaceutical drug that the Republican governor had been poised to…
Blaire AndresApril 15, 2017
As Arkansas prepares to carry out an unprecedented string of executions beginning next week, the state is facing new criticism over the lethal injection drugs it plans to use, along…
Blaire AndresApril 14, 2017
Last week, the global drug company Pfizer announced sweeping new restrictions on the distribution of seven of its products, preventing them from being used to carry out the death penalty.…
Blaire AndresMay 21, 2016
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it had imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step…
Blaire AndresMay 13, 2016
We understand that several states in the US are considering using Propofol for lethal injections. Missouri intended to employ a Propofol-based injection, but has recently announced its decision not to…
Blaire AndresOctober 1, 2013
In 2011, several death row inmates brought a suit against the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), alleging that the FDA had violated federal law by allowing shipments of misbranded, unapproved…
Blaire AndresJune 26, 2012
The European Commission has imposed strict controls on the export of drugs used to carry out lethal injections. EU firms wanting to export drugs such as the sedative sodium thiopental…
Blaire AndresMarch 5, 2012
A Danish pharmaceutical company said Friday that it would stop shipping a powerful drug to American prisons that carry out the death penalty by lethal injection because some states began…
Blaire AndresJuly 1, 2011