A group of nine Senate Democrats urged the Department of Justice to rescind a Trump-era legal opinion stating that the Food and Drug Administration cannot regulate drugs intended for use in executions.
the use of their products in executions. As a result, prison agencies have turned to “increasingly questionable suppliers willing to sell concoctions designed to kill,” the lawmakers wrote, citingTo evade transparency, corrections officials have paid for drugs in cash, transported them in private planes, and lied about the intended use of the drugs. At least twenty states have restricted access to information about the source of lethal injection drugs.
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