Sodium thiopental

The death chamber at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas is seen through steel bars from the viewing room.

Prisons enter a sketchy world to obtain drugs to kill death row inmates

Justice

Lethal injections don’t happen without specific drugs, but when a favorite drug of the prison system became harder to get, prisons went looking abroad and found the product through sketchy dealers and by lying to drug companies.

A jail cell on death row, where prison inmates await execution

Increasing pressure against the death penalty may have led to Oklahoma’s bungled execution

Conflict & Justice
The World

Shortage of lethal injection drug sees prisons scrambling

Conflict & Justice