The drug at the heart of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma isn't a household name for many, but on Wednesday, the powerful sedative was being debated in the Supreme Court as lawyers sparred over ...

Certain drugs used for lethal injection in the U.S. are in short supply, which is causing states to scramble to find new, often untested drugs to kill death row inmates. For the first time, the ...

Midazolam HCl 1mg/mL or 5mg/mL; soln for IV or IM inj; contains benzyl alcohol. Inj site reactions, headache, hiccoughs, GI upset, cough, oversedation, drowsiness; cardiorespiratory events (eg, ...

WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) --The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of midazolam in lethal injections, asserting it does not violate the Eighth Amendment barring "cruel and unusual punishment." The ...

Intramuscularly or intravenously for preoperative sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia; Intravenously as an agent for sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia prior to or during diagnostic, therapeutic or endoscopic ...

Why a lawsuit wants to outlaw the use of midazolam in lethal injections. — -- The U.S. Supreme Court is again grappling with the death penalty by examining the effectiveness of the drugs used to ...

In a split decision on Monday, the Supreme Court approved the use of lethal-injection drug midazolam, which caused at least four botched executions in 2014 and triggered a panic among death-row ...

The United States’ three executions this year widely considered botched all have at least one thing in common: they’ve all included the use of midazolam, a sedative previously unused in lethal ...

According to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, the lives of several death row inmates hinge on chemistry. Earlier this year, Hutchinson scheduled eight executions during 10 days in April because, he ...

The question of whether the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol violates the U.S. Constitution is now in the hands of U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker, who heard final testimony and closing ...

Last week, the state of Oklahoma executed Charles Warner after the Supreme Court refused to halt his execution while he appealed the constitutionality of the drugs used to kill him. Warner and three ...