Ty Alper Questions Use of Overseas Lethal Injection Drugs

-The Associated Press, October 26, 2010 by Amanda Lee Myers and Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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The issue will come down to whether an overseas version of sodium thiopental would be equivalent to what the FDA has approved here, said Ty Alper, associate director of the death penalty clinic at the University of California-Berkeley.

-The New York Times, October 27, 2010 by John Schwartz
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/us/28execute.html?_r=1

Ty Alper, the associate director of the death penalty clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, said that the Supreme Court’s decision did not end the story, arguing that “it explicitly leaves the door open for a challenge in a case where petitioners can show that the drug was unlawfully obtained.”