Pharma Company Blocks Nevada Execution

Alvogen claimed via court documents that Nevada prison officials illegally obtained the sedative midazolam, and the company doesn’t want its product used in a “botched” execution. “Midazolam is not approved for use in such an application,” the document said. The drug was substituted in May to replace expired prison stocks of diazemab, a similar sedative also known as Valium.

Last year, an execution fiasco in Arkansas left drug manufacturers scrambling to figure out how the state's Department of Correction got their hands on a supply of lethal injection drugs.