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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...