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Federal Drug Administration Being Sued by Death Row Prisoners

June 29, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

Lawyers representing six Death Row inmates are suing the Federal Drug Administration over the importing of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic used as part of the lethal three-drug cocktail in state executions, CNN reported.
“The imported thiopental in question has not been listed with the FDA, was manufactured by foreign companies that have not registered with the FDA, and was exported by a wholesaler in the United Kingdom,” the lawsuit says.
The attorneys allege that the FDA violated federal law by allowing states to import unapproved supplies of thiopental

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