Sentences with phrase «lethal injection drugs»

Courts must uphold the convictions, prison officials must secure lethal injection drugs, and governors and attorneys general must clear political and legal obstacles.

But numerous other states have made moves to obtain lethal injection drugs and revive their death chambers.

The expert ended up prompting a back - and - forth between Supreme Court justices, who narrowly upheld use of a lethal injection drug.

Consider the budget - driven approach taken by two local Kentucky lawyers, Public Defender David Barron and state attorney, Jeff Middendorf, who played key roles in Supreme Court case Baze v. Rees, that addresses whether Kentucky's lethal injection drug protocol amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

In one case, a state court halted an execution scheduled for Thursday night, while a state judge separately barred the use of a lethal injection drug, potentially blocking all of the planned executions.

Not exact matches

Ongoing legal battles surrounding the production of drugs for lethal injections have halted executions in several states.

That's a problem for places like Texas, which only has enough drugs for two more lethal injections (both of which are on the table for next week.)

Now that Hospira has stopped making the drug and the United Kingdom has controlled export, will a lack of sodium thiopental end lethal injection in the United States?

To offer an alternative drug regimen for a lethal injection, an inmate's lawyers would have to solicit input from medical professionals.

Regardless of whether Landrigan's legal team was simply using the drug shortage as stalling tactic, their legal maneuvering brings to the fore a contentious dispute over the science (or some would say lack thereof) behind lethal injection executions in the U.S.. For more than two decades, it has been argued that the FDA should be required to certify the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to carry out executions (as it does for drugs used to euthanize animals).

It wanted to carry out the death sentences before its stockpile of one of three drugs used in lethal injection, called midazolam, reached its expiry date on 30 April.

Injections of the compound called PTK 0796 kept mice alive after they had been infected with otherwise lethal doses of Streptococcus pneumoniae, the inventors» of the drug report.

Regardless, the Humane Society of the United States offered to pay for the switch including the training of shelter staff to perform lethal injection and the necessary equipment and drugs.

In recent years, executions have become even more difficult to carry out because drug companies have protested the use of their products in lethal injections.

Well, the Texas — the original reason was because during earlier in the day, around 10:00 a.m., the US Supreme Court decided to take a case out of Kentucky that would have determined the constitutionality of lethal injection as an execution method, the three - drug cocktail used in executions in Kentucky and here in the US.

The problems American states are confronting in finding drugs to make lethal injections look kind and gentle lie in a growing global movement against capital punishment in which America is increasingly seen as part of an anti human rights «axis» along with Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia.