FDA’s Immoral Stance on Lethal Injection Drugs
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July 30 (Bloomberg) -- The mission of the Food and DrugAdministration is to protect us from drugs that might killbecause they are impure, badly manufactured, untested. Well, notall drugs, as it turns out.
When it comes to drugs used in executions, the FDA says itdoesn’t check on their “potency, safety or effectiveness.”Thus, the agency allowed a small company in Mumbai that storedits drugs in a room without air conditioning to sell Nebraskaenough sodium thiopental for 166 executions.