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# Lawmakers Want FDA Jurisdiction on Execution Drugs
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/lawmakers-want-fda-jurisdiction-on-execution-drugs/
- Published: 2024-05-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T14:31:48.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5157056

Senators **Cory Booker** (D-NJ) and **Elizabeth Warren** (D-MA) are calling on the Department of Justice (DoJ) to rescind its Office of Legal Counsel’s 2019 opinion on FDA jurisdiction over execution drugs and allow the agency to regulate the products. “The DoJ under the current Administration has reversed previous OLC opinions that were legally unsound and should do so here,” the lawmakers contend in a 5/21 letter to DoJ.

Booker and Warren argue in their [letter](https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/52124finaldojolcletter.pdf?ref=fdaweb.com) that the opinion is “misguided” and “inconsistent with the principles of fairness and justice, undermines drug safety, and facilitates legally dubious state execution methods. It blocks the FDA from intervening when states obtain unmarked vials from underground suppliers, inject their citizens with contaminated solutions, and cause needlessly painful deaths.”