Certain drugs used for lethal injection in the U.S. are in short supply, which is causing states to scramble to find new, often untested drugs to kill death row inmates. For the first time, the ...

The drug at the heart of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma isn't a household name for many, but on Wednesday, the powerful sedative was being debated in the Supreme Court as lawyers sparred over ...

PHOENIX — A judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests the way Arizona carries out executions is scheduled to hear arguments over a sedative that was recently abandoned as one of the state’s lethal ...

WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) --The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of midazolam in lethal injections, asserting it does not violate the Eighth Amendment barring "cruel and unusual punishment." The ...

Intramuscularly or intravenously for preoperative sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia; Intravenously as an agent for sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia prior to or during diagnostic, therapeutic or endoscopic ...

Inmates executed with a controversial cocktail of drugs opened their eyes, thrashed against their restraints and grimaced after getting a dose meant to render them unconscious before they died, ...

WEBVTT CRAIG: WE'RE TOLD THE TEEN ISBEING INTERVIEWED BY POLICETONIGHT.PAIGE: ARKANSAS IS PREPARING TOCARRY OUT TWO EXECUTIONSTOMORROW, DESPITE LEGALCHALLENGES.WE KNOW TWO MEN SET TO BE PUT TODEATH ON ...

In a split decision on Monday, the Supreme Court approved the use of lethal-injection drug midazolam, which caused at least four botched executions in 2014 and triggered a panic among death-row ...

Why a lawsuit wants to outlaw the use of midazolam in lethal injections. — -- The U.S. Supreme Court is again grappling with the death penalty by examining the effectiveness of the drugs used to ...

The question of whether the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol violates the U.S. Constitution is now in the hands of U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker, who heard final testimony and closing ...

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Last week, the state of Oklahoma executed Charles Warner after the Supreme Court refused to halt his execution while he appealed the constitutionality of the drugs used to kill him. Warner and three ...