-Arkansas Online, February 4, 2011 by Andy Davis
http://bit.ly/9eghoo (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)

“When you’re talking about an unapproved drug, the presumption is it is an unknown entity that is not safe and effective,” McCracken said.

-ABC News, February 8, 2011 by Ariane De Vogue
http://abcn.ws/eXskd0

“The impact of the drug shortage will be different in every state,” she said. “Some states have supplies of the drug, and it’s unclear if they will be able to use the foreign version. Some have the domestic product but that will most likely expire by the end of March.”

The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2011 by Nathan Koppel
http://on.wsj.com/gy0lmy

“I take issue with the agency’s decision not to enforce the law and require the foreign sodium thiopental to meet the relevant statutory standards for safety and effectiveness,” said Megan McCracken.

-NPR, Morning Edition, November 19, 2010 by Kathy Lohr
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/18/131428930/oklahoma-execution-plan-stirs-controversy

“Some states have announced that they have an adequate supply of sodium thiopental,” said Megan McCracken, Eighth Amendment counsel at the Death Penalty Clinic…. “Other states have had trouble obtaining the drug and have either turned to other states to get it or, as we’ve learned recently, have had to seek it from a foreign source, from another country.”

-The Arizona Republic, November 29, 2010 by Michael Kiefer
http://bit.ly/fXDDBz

“Today’s announcement that U.K. officials have recognized that it is illegal to import non-FDA approved drugs into this country is an important step in the right direction,” she said. “However…. the onus is now on the courts in the U.S. to require total transparency in upcoming executions to ensure that the drug used to anesthetize prisoners before they are executed is a legal, approved, and effective drug.”

The Wall Street Journal, November 9, 2010 by Nathan Koppel
http://on.wsj.com/d4IUZT

“Whether or not an execution is humane turns entirely on whether thiopental deeply anesthetizes the inmate,” said Megan McCracken, an attorney with the Death Penalty Clinic…. “That is why the provenance of thiopental is so important.”

The New York Times, October 22, 2010 by John Schwartz
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/us/23execute.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt

Megan McCracken, an adviser on lethal injection issues to the death penalty clinic at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, argued that the origin of the drug used was nonetheless important under the law…. To Ms. McCracken, the lack of information about the drug opens Arizona to a challenge under the Baze decision. “Its provenance matters,” she said.