In a padlocked refrigerator behind San Quentin State Prison’s death chamber, 12 grams of scarce sodium thiopental is available to carry out up to four executions. How the California Department of ...

The term "truth serum" refers to a number of mind-altering drugs. These drugs make you incapable of lying, or so the theory goes. Such mind-altering drugs do exist, but their effect isn't enough to ...

Fifteen states this week asked the U.S. Justice Department for help in obtaining the anesthesia drug sodium thiopental for use in executions, according to a Chicago Tribune report. A federal judge ...

A state law shields its source of pentobarbital, the sedative used in lethal injections. But documents reviewed by NBC News ...

(CBS/AP) FRANKFORT, Ky. - The state of Kentucky has turned over its supply of sodium thiopental, a key lethal injection drug, to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said Friday.

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 VARIETY of musculoskeletal injuries are known to occur as a complication of electroconvulsive therapy. Such injuries vary from muscular strains to fractures of long and flat bones. Lingley and ...

February 11, 2010 — The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has asked the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for the sake of patient safety, to work with foreign governments to allow for ...

A shortage of an important anesthetic may be good news for some inmates. Sept. 20, 2010 — -- There has perhaps been no better time to be on death row than right now. A shortage of a key ...