California refuses to return execution drug to FDA

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3. Sodium Pentothal is truth serum

Though these days, Sodium Amytal is the drug of choice. The article says they use it to sedate people before execution. I have to wonder. This from the article, makes no sense: He said the agency was violating the law and appeared to be demonstrating a "callous indifference to the health consequences of those imminently facing the executioner's needle."

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