A Mexican man pleaded guilty Friday to illegally importing the drug pentobarbital for use in committing suicide after ...

Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful sedative that some experts warn causes extreme pain and suffering when ...

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 ...