Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful ...

and EEG responses were recorded following either halothane or sodium pentobarbital, representing inhalational and injectable general anesthetic, respectively. The effect of halothane (2% ...

He did so after a review by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy raised serious questions about the drug pentobarbital sodium, “a sedative that slows the activity of the brain ...

It is illegal to import sodium thiopental ... Director Brian Redd described the state’s attempts to acquire pentobarbital. Officials reached out to 12 states, which “either did not respond ...