akorn took over, basically took over the rights of pentobarbital and kept that distribution agreementodel is there if they chose to apply it to the distribution of midazolam. >> wow. so it's not only there, it's there in their own company. i have to ask you, a federal judge this week in a ruling about arizona said if we are going to execute people, we need to go back to systems that work. basically saying that lethal injection logistically doesn't work to kill people efficiently enough. in your work in this in the legal clinical context, do you think that's where the legal argument is going? >> certainly we've seen a lot of statements from legislators, attorneys general departments. it seems a lot like bluster and i think it betrays their frustration with not being able to carry out executions by lethal injection. it shows how much they appear to want to carry out executions that they're willing to go back or consider going back to methods that they abandoned in favor of a more humane method. what they thought was a more humane method. >> jen moreno. it was very clarifying. thanks for

since then, the manufacturers of a substitute drug called pentobarbital restricted the sale of that drugn the united states. when missouri announced plans to use another substitute for that substitute, propofol, when they said they were going to use propofol to kill people, the manufacturers of that drug said if you do that, missouri, we'll ban our drug from being used anywhere in the united states for anything, and since that drug has other uses that are medically appropriate that aren't just for killing people, missouri backed off. they didn't want to get the whole drug banned from the united states for all purposes, so they took it back. then the state of indiana announced plans to use another substitute for the substitute. indiana suggested they would use a drug called brevital to kill people. the manufacturers of brevital immediately then moved to ban the sale of that drug to any prison in the united states or to anyone who would resell it to any prison in the united states. and that has left another substitute for the substitute for the substitute for the substitute, a drug called