Exclusive: While battling opioid crisis, U.S. government weighed using fentanyl for executions

Exclusive: While battling opioid crisis, U.S. government weighed using fentanyl for executions
Reuters: Health
The U.S. Department of Justice examined using fentanyl in lethal injections as it prepared last year to resume executing condemned prisoners, a then untested use of the powerful, addictive opioid that has helped fuel a national crisis of overdose deaths.