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States plea to AG for help getting execution drugs
Fifteen states want the Justice Department to help them get an execution drug, and death penalty opponents are pressuring drugmakers to bar lethal-injection drugs from prisons.
Docs demand Hospira action on execution drug
An international group of doctors is putting the squeeze on Hospira ( $HSP ) over a drug now being used for executions by U.S. death-penalty states. Writing in The Lancet, 25 physicians said Hospira
EU imposes new export controls on execution meds
European officials are pulling in the reins on lethal-injection drugs. It's a case of putting export controls where its convictions lie: Since 2008, the EU has been calling for an end to the death
EU reg to halt export of death penalty drug
European drug officials are spreading cheer to U.S. death row inmates. A regulation that goes into effect tomorrow fortifies the decision already made by some EU drug suppliers individually: It
DEA confiscates Georgia's execution drug
The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental , a substance used in lethal injections, amid questions over how it was imported into the state. Sodium thiopental
Novartis aims to keep death-penalty drug out of U.S.
Yet another drugmaker has lodged a protest against capital punishment. Novartis, whose generics unit Sandoz makes a copycat version of sodium thiopental, says it is forbidding its distributors from
Ohio names replacement drug for executions
Ohio has chosen pentobarbital to replace sodium thiopental for use in death penalty executions. The move by prison officials follows the announcement last week that Hospira will no longer make
Thiopental shortage to linger with Hospira's exit
The highly anticipated Q1 2011 resumption of sodium thiopental manufacturing is no longer to be. Hospira is exiting the business and thus adding to the woes of surgeons and executioners alike. The
Hospira kills death-penalty drug
Usually, politics and pharmaceuticals intersect on Capitol Hill. But now, U.S. drugmaker Hospira will stop producing one of its meds for political reasons--it's used by state governments to execute
Hospira plots to block anesthetic from executions
Sodium thiopental maker Hospira says it is working to prevent use of the anesthetic in capital punishment. As the sole manufacturer of the drug in the U.S., the company is considering such tactics as
