# Trump trying to rush approval for firing squads for federal executions **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 28, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-trying-to-rush-approval-for-firing-squads-for-federal-executions/926626 "2020-11-28T00:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-trying-to-rush-approval-for-firing-squads-for-federal-executions/926626/21 "2020-11-28T23:16:28Z")
REcent thread on lethal injection in GQ, where that point came up: > [@Lethal injection without lethal injection drugs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lethal-injection-without-lethal-injection-drugs/926105/7): > > Here’s a WaPost article about the fights between FDA, Department of Justice and Texas, on the issue of using and obtaining drugs for execution. I’m afraid it’s pay-walled. Short version is that there is a 2012 injunction which bars the FDA from allowing the import of sodium thiopental, so they wouldn’t allow Texas to import the drug. However, AG Sessions argued that drugs for death penalty purposes are not within the FDA’s mandate, which a DOJ opinion in 2019 confirmed. The article (from … > **[Justice Department says FDA ‘lacks jurisdiction’ over death-penalty drugs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/justice-department-says-fda-lacks-jurisdiction-over-death-penalty-drugs/2019/05/14/da056e6c-764d-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html)** > > The opinion sides with Texas, which the agency blocked from importing an overseas drug needed in executions. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-trying-to-rush-approval-for-firing-squads-for-federal-executions/926626)._