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 ...

CROSSJECT (ISIN: FR0011716265; Mnémo: ALCJ), a specialty pharma company that is developing and will soon be marketing a portfolio of drug / device combinations for use in emergency situations, is ...

The United States’ three executions this year widely considered botched all have at least one thing in common: they’ve all included the use of midazolam, a sedative previously unused in lethal ...

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 ...

At the coroner’s office in Dayton, Ohio, Dr. Mark Edgar stood over the body of Robert Van Hook. The deceased 58-year-old weighed 228 pounds; he wore blue pants, a white shirt, and identification tags ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections on Friday ceded a legal battle to defense attorneys for death-row prisoners by removing a controversial drug from its lethal-injection execution protocol. In a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug for lethal injection in executions, but opened a larger question about capital punishment when two justices in the minority ...

It has been the source of some controversy as several prisoners have taken some time to die and appeared to be in pain when midazolam was used IT is a drug used for people who have trouble sleeping ...