Commentary: The FDA is on a collision course with the courts over imported execution drugs
by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2019
2 minutes
The Justice Department has added another level of confusion to the nation's already muddled capital punishment system, advising the Food and Drug Administration that it lacks the authority to regulate the importation of drugs used in lethal injections. As a consequence, the Justice Department said, the FDA can't stand in the way of states acquiring them from manufacturers overseas, potentially a key source of
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