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Category - execution drugs

18 Jun 2013

Healthcare firm receives award for action to prevent use of drug in executions

A pharmaceutical company which has taken steps to prevent its product from being used in executions is to receive an award recognising ethical leadership.
15 May 2013

British firm moves to end supply of execution drugs to US

A UK pharmaceutical firm has announced that it is "putting in place concrete steps" to stop the use of its drugs in executions.
21 Mar 2013

Top pharmaceutical company moves to stop flow of execution drugs

One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies has taken steps to ensure its drugs cannot be used to carry out executions by lethal injection.
30 Oct 2012

South Dakota covers up source of death penalty drugs ahead of execution

Prison authorities in South Dakota are refusing to release information on contaminated drugs made to order for an execution tonight (30 October).
17 Oct 2012

South Dakota carries out execution using contaminated compounded drugs

Drugs from a compounding pharmacy have been used to execute a prisoner in Dakota in a potentially botched lethal injection, it has emerged.
11 Jul 2012

Britain to block export of new execution drug to US

The UK Government will impose strict export controls on the anaesthetic propofol in response to the intention of American prisons to use the drug in executions.
27 Jun 2012

UK doctors vote to end to use of medicines in executions

The BMA's annual meeting has called for an end to the use of medicines in executions and for controls on the distribution and export of drugs used for this purpose.
8 Jun 2012

German drug company faces involvement in US executions

A German drug company may become the prime supplier of execution drugs to the US following a decision by the State of Missouri to use propofol in lethal injections.
26 May 2012

New US execution method threatens hospital supplies

The US state of Missouri has announced a new execution method which will see a medicine diverted from US hospitals to kill prisoners.
6 Apr 2012

Lundbeck wins ethical award for ending use of its drugs in executions

Lundbeck has become the first recipient of a new Corporate Social Responsibility Award for Ethical Leadership in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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