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Lethal Injection Roundup

By Steve Hall

The AP report on the FDA lawsuit is, "FDA sued over shipments of drug used in executions."  It's written by Greg bluestein and is via the Washington Post. A federal lawsuit filed against the Food and Drug Administration urges a judge to block imports of a key drug used in the nation's executions that has been in short supply since the sole U.S. maker decided to stop producing it. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., claims the FDA has knowingly allowed state corrections officials to import sodium thiopental, the sedative used in a three-drug execution cocktail, that has not been approved by the agency. "It just seems wrong to allow these suspect goods into the country in violation of federal law just because they're used on prisoners rather than law-abiding citizens," said Brad Berenson, the attorney who filed the lawsuit on behalf of death row inmates in California, Arizona and Tennessee...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 04, 2011 (boomark / email).