WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, on behalf of six death-row prisoners from California, Arizona, and Tennessee, Sidley Austin LLP filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking to ...

A federal judge yesterday barred the use of sodium thiopental, an imported anesthetic administered to death row inmates prior to lethal injections, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report. U.S.

PHOENIX — As lethal injection drugs become more and more scarce in Arizona, the state’s Department of Corrections has begun allowing attorneys for death row inmates to bring their own drugs. The ...

Corrections officials across the country are looking for new options amid a dwindling supply of one of the three drugs used for lethal injections in most states. Thirty-five states carry out the death ...

The famed chemical sodium pentothal, which is commonly known as truth serum, has been a mainstay of spy flicks for decades. In real life, scientists have tested it on spies, psychiatric patients, ...