DETAILS, FICTION AND PENTOBARBITAL NATRIUM PURCHASE

In keeping with a December 2020 ProPublica write-up, by 2017 the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), in discussion with then Legal professional Standard Jeff Classes, had begun to find suppliers of pentobarbital to be used in lethal injections. The BOP was mindful that using pentobarbital as their "new drug alternative" could well be challenged from t