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Texas Wants Its Execution Drugs Back, And It’s Suing The FDA To Get Them

Leg tie downs on the gurney in the execution room at the Oregon State Penitentiary, in Salem, Ore. (AP/Rick Bowmer)
(REPORT) — Texas on Tuesday sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for what it says is an “unreasonable delay” in deciding whether to allow the delivery of execution drugs from India. The lawsuit comes more than 17 months after the FDA seized 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental at a Houston airport.

Kim Jong-un Used an Anti-Aircraft Gun to Execute Someone for Sleeping in Meeting: Report

(ANTIMEDIASouth Korean media has reported that two top-level officials within the North Korean government were publicly executed earlier this month at a military academy in Pyongyang.  They were allegedly killed by their own government because they were a threat to “Dear Respected Comrade” Kim Jong-un.

Arabie Saoudite : entretien avec Jean-Michel Vernochet

L’Arabie Saoudite a décidé d’exécuter 47 personnes pour « terrorisme », dont l’imam chiite Nimr Baqer al-Nimr, provoquant ainsi une vague de contestation et de colère, notamment en Iran, où des manifestants ont pris d’assaut l’ambassade saoudienne. Depuis, les tensions diplomatiques entre les deux pays n’ont pas cessé. C’est dans ce contexte que nous avons demandé à Jean-Michel Vernochet de nous livrer son analyse de ces événements.