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 ...

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 ...

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Hospira has announced that it will not reinstate production of its drug Pentothal (sodium thiopental). The anesthetic agent's use as part of a lethal cocktail administered ...

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 ...

That's what the Associated Press, Austin-American Statesman and the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, want to know. Earlier this year, they filed public information act ...

THE use of Pentothal Sodium as an intravenous anesthetic agent has found wide acceptance in the field of gynecologic surgery. This is probably related to the following basic considerations: the high ...

Germany's leading medical association called Monday on the nation's pharmaceutical companies to refrain from selling a drug used in lethal injections to the United States. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists says it is “extremely troubled” to learn that the anesthetic sodium thiopental, or Pentothal, has been removed from the U.S. market after its sole ...