Syme appealed to VCAT where a panel comprising a judge and two medical practitioners overruled the Medical Board. The panel declared Syme could continue to supply the rapidly acting drug Nembutal (generic names pentobarbital or pentobarbitone) to patients he assessed would get significant psychological or existential relief from it.Because such pat… Read More

According to a December 2020 ProPublica article, by 2017 the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), rein discussion with then Attorney General Jeff Sessions, had begun to search for suppliers of pentobarbital to be used hinein lethal injections. The BOP welches aware that the use of pentobarbital as their "new drug choice" would Beryllium challenged hine… Read More