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Medications
Actors
Laws
History
100
Classification of medications containing agents such as phenobarbital and pheobarbital
What are barbiturates?
100
Those whose role is to make laws and regulations for the population at large.
Who are politicians or legislators?
100
Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the use of cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
100
First recorded instance of capital punishment.
What is 1700 BCE, Babylon
200
Classification of medications containing agents such as midazolam or diazepam.
What are benzodiazepines?
200
Actors that are personally subjected to lethal injection.
What is the inmates?
200
Federal Agency that restricts access to controlled substances
What is the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency)?
200
First Execution in America
What is 1602, executed for spying for the Spanish.
300
Primary benzodiazepine used for lethal injection.
What is midazolam?
300
Actors who object to involvement with lethal injection because it violates their professional oaths.
What are healthcare providers?
300
Court case that resulted in a pause or cessation of the death penalty.
What is Furman v. Georgia?
300
Capital Punishment Abolished
What is 1972?
400
Only medication used as a single drug modality.
What is sodium thiopental?
400
Object to their products being used for purposes other than their licensed indications.
What are pharmaceutical companies?
400
Court case that reinstated capital punishment.
What is Gregg v. Georgia?
400
Capital Punishment reinstated.
What is 1976?
500
Any of a number of medications that suppress or stop respiration.
What are opioids, KCl, pancromium bromide, hydromorphone, etc?
500
Nongovernmental organization(s) advocating for the aboloshment of lethal injection.
What is: The Innocence Project, The Death Penalty Information Network, Amnesty International, others
500
Cased filed in 2015 to determine if lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
What is Glossip v. Gross?
500
First State to execute someone by lethal injection.
What is Texas?