The status of the state's lethal-injection drug supplies were revealed Friday in a court filing in a lawsuit that challenges the way Arizona carries out the death penalty. The state of Arizona has eliminated its use of the sedative midazolam as one of the drugs it relies on in carrying out executions. States are struggling to obtain execution drugs because European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products for lethal injections. Similar challenges to the death penalty are playing out in other parts of the country that seek more transparency about where states get their execution drugs. The state argued in its filing Friday that the lawsuit is moot now that midazolam is off the table.

Source: ABC News June 25, 2016 00:00 UTC