Pentobarbital

Lethal injection drug access could put executions on hold

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Beuthanasia, Potassium Chloride, Social Issues, Pancuronium, Capital Punishment, Medical, Lethal Injection, General Anesthetics, Health, Sodium Thiopental, Barbiturates, Anticonvulsants, Food and Drug Administration, Pharma, Pentobarbital, Politics News
The Center for Public Integrity

By Kimberly Leonard, iWatch NewsA federal judge's decision to block imports of a drug used in executions will leave states to rely more on a substit...

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Georgia Inmate Dies In Video-Recorded Execution

AP | By SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Execution, Bensonetta Tipton Lane, Potassium-Chloride, Roy Blankenship, Georgia, Gregory Walker, Video Recorded Execution, Death, Georgia Supreme Court, Death Row, Andrew-Deyoung, Death & Dying, Pentobarbital, Pancuronium Bromide, Nathan Deal, Kennesaw State University, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Crime News

JACKSON, Ga. (Associated Press) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed Thursday after the courts allowed what expe...

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Despite Warnings, States Scramble To Get Controversial Execution Drug

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 06.22.2011

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly two-thirds of the 16 states with active death chambers are switching to an alternative sedative for execution – ev...

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Denmark Company Supplies Major U.S. Executioners

Amnesty International | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Capital Punishment, Mississippi, Sodium Thiopental, Pentobarbital, Ohio, New York Times, Texas, Death Penalty, Oklahoma, Lethal Injection, Denmark, Lundbeck, Politics News
Amnesty International

Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has sold pentobarbital to four of the most prolific executing states in the U.S.

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