Lawmakers Question Amazon About Sale of Preservative Used in Suicides

In a letter sent to Andy Jassy, Amazon’s president and chief executive, a bipartisan group of House members sought an accounting of the company’s sales of a preservative used as a poison to die by suicide, details on how the retailer had addressed the dangers, and an explanation of how it had responded to complaints. The move comes just weeks after publication of a Times investigation that linked a website, which provides explicit instructions on suicide, to a long trail of deaths.