Sodium Pentathol

What is Sodium Pentathol?


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Chemical formula: C11 H17 O2 N2 S Na

Sodium Pentathol (less commonly known as sodium thiopental) is one of the three chemicals used in lethal injection, is used as a truth serum in several states due to the effect it has on your mind, and is the quickest and easiest way to medically induce a coma.

Sodium Pentathol was discovered in the early 1930s by Ernest H. Volwiler and Donalee L. Tabern, working for Abbott Laboratories. The term "sodium pentathol" is coined by Abbot Laboratories.

It is also a song by the thrash metal band Anthrax

In the lethal injection of Oklahoma bomber, Timothy McVeigh, Sodium Pentathol was injected into his system along with two other chemicals

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