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Additional News Coverage of the FDA Lawsuit

By Steve Hall

The civil law suit, Beaty v. FDA, is available in Adobe .pdf format. Today's New York Times carries, "F.D.A. Sued Over Drug Used in Executions," by John Schwartz. Lawyers in Washington sued the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday on behalf of death-row prisoners, demanding that a Federal District Court prohibit importation and use of sodium thiopental, a drug used in many executions. When the sole supplier of the drug in the United States stopped producing it, executions were delayed in several states, and states obtained the drug from overseas suppliers. The agency has long said it has no authority over executions. The lead lawyer in the suit, Bradford A. Berenson, said it was ?not about halting executions but rather about ensuring that illegal drugs are not used in carrying out otherwise lawful sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 03, 2011 (boomark / email).