Intramuscularly or intravenously for preoperative sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia; Intravenously as an agent for sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia prior to or during diagnostic, therapeutic or endoscopic ...

Inmates executed with a controversial cocktail of drugs opened their eyes, thrashed against their restraints and grimaced after getting a dose meant to render them unconscious before they died, ...

According to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, the lives of several death row inmates hinge on chemistry. Earlier this year, Hutchinson scheduled eight executions during 10 days in April because, he ...

Midazolam HCl 1mg/mL or 5mg/mL; soln for IV or IM inj; contains benzyl alcohol. Inj site reactions, headache, hiccoughs, GI upset, cough, oversedation, drowsiness; cardiorespiratory events (eg, ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections on Friday ceded a legal battle to defense attorneys for death-row prisoners by removing a controversial drug from its lethal-injection execution protocol. In a ...

A federal judge in Ohio ruled on Jan. 26 that midazolam — the first injection drug used in the state's three-injection drug protocol for executions — violates death row inmates' Eighth Amendment right ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The sedative midazolam is supposed to prevent condemned prisoners from suffering while they die, but opponents say several problematic executions involving ...

A federal judge on Monday rejected the claim of attorneys for 17 death-row inmates that midazolam, the first drug in the state's three-drug execution protocol, violates the Eighth Amendment ban on ...

In the minutes before his execution, Billy Ray Irick knew two things: He was suffocating and he was involuntarily paralyzed, according to court documents, a fate that four Tennessee death row ...