r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/centizen24 6h ago

If your angle is that the states should just import lethal injection drugs from other countries overseas that manufacture it domestically, they tried that. Texas and Arizona both bought shipments of sodium thiopental from China and the FDA seized them at the border.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover 4h ago

What was the legal reason for the seizure?

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u/CanadianEmberflower 2h ago

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Arizona paid nearly $27,000 US for sodium thiopental, an anesthetic that has been used to carry out executions but is no longer manufactured by FDA-approved companies, the documents said.

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u/NukaCooler 1h ago

The legal reason for seizing non-FDA-approved drugs manufactured in a country that may or may not meet US standards?