sodium pentothal

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Something wrong with the water possibly or maybe the sodium pentothal we got from the Americans wasn’t the best.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2018

But to a certain degree, I disagree with that, because for them, it’s almost like sodium pentothal, it’s like truth serum.

From The Verge • Feb. 28, 2018

A court filing dated last Friday doesn’t explain why Norris Greenhouse Jr.’s lawyer, George Higgins III, is asking if any prosecution witnesses underwent hypnosis or any “truth-determining examinations,” such as polygraph tests or sodium pentothal.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2016

Instead, the agency will try to obtain sodium pentothal, the powerful but obsolete sedative that was used in most lethal injections in Arizona until it became difficult to obtain, and sodium pentobarbital.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2014

Of course, there had been no sodium pentothal, just a harmless prick with a sterilized needle.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer