On Thursday, the federal government formally blocked two shipments of a massive amount of execution drugs on their way to Texas and Arizona.
A U.S. regulatory agency told Texas and Arizona that more than a thousand vials of drugs they ordered for executions in their states from India in 2015, and seized by U.S. Customs, will not be released to them, an official said on Thursday.
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- Federal officials on Thursday finalized their refusal to allow Texas prison officials to receive a foreign shipment of a drug the state has used to execute death row inmates.
Europeans have had a bone to pick with companies supplying death penalty drugs to U.S. prisons, with government officials restricting exports and prompting shortages.