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Texas loses patience, sues FDA for barring import of lethal injection drug
Texas officials filed a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday following a 17-month stand-off with the agency over the legality of imported drugs the state intended to use for lethal injections. In July of 2015, Texas imported 1,000 vials of thiopental sodium, a barbiturate anesthetic that ensures rapid loss of consciousness when given in lethal cocktails. According to the court documents (PDF), the drugs came from an unnamed “foreign distributor." (However, Buzzfeed has reported they were from a questionable source in India.)
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You're trying to tell me that Texas officials can't find American made drugs that will kill you. Just go to any street corner in America and buy a couple bags of H, problem solved. If you don't know what H is don't worry, the guy on the street corner will set you up. Hard to understand how Texas officials are having such a hard time at this, American drugs are killing people every day. Will someone tell Trump that texas is buying drugs from India.
The Supreme Court has held that only certain drug combinations are somehow, magically, constitutional for executions. If you’re a more civilized country, say one that’s has seen state-sanctioned murder as barbaric for generations, and you find you’re the only available source of a drug used in those executions, banning export of those drugs for that purpose would be the only moral choice.