Nevada execution blocked after drugmaker protests use of its sedative
A condemned killer who had given up on any further appeals as he awaited execution in Nevada on Wednesday received an 11th-hour reprieve thanks to a pharmaceutical company suing to block the use of one of its drugs in the lethal injection process. Alvogen Inc, which said the Nevada Corrections Department had obtained the sedative midazolam unlawfully, won a court order barring the product from being administered to Scott Dozier as part of the state's newly devised and untested three-drug execution protocol. The 47-year-old inmate had been ...
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