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March 28, 2012

U.S. Judge Bars Import of Death Penalty Drug 
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A federal judge has barred the importation of a drug used in executions
of death row prisoners. On Tuesday, Judge Richard Leon of the Federal
District Court in Washington ruled the Federal Drug Administration had
unlawfully allowed sodium thiopental into the United States. The case
was brought on behalf of death row prisoners in Arizona, California and
Tennessee. In his ruling, Judge Leon chided the FDA for what he called
"a callous indifference to the health consequences of those imminently
facing the executioner’s needle."



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