FDA Doesn’t Have The Discretion It Thought It Had
April 26, 2012
Of all the areas in which we’d have expected to see the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)discretionary wings clipped, drugs used in lethal injection executions didn’t come to mind. But we recently read Beaty v. FDA, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41397 (D.D.C. Mar. 27, 2002), and that’s exactly what it involved. It provides an unexpected but indisputably interesting backdrop for the discussion.
