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Category - execution drugs

27 Mar 2012

Call for 'Hippocratic Oath' on execution drugs

Reprieve is calling on pharmaceutical companies to sign a ‘Pharmaceutical Hippocratic oath’ which would end their involvement in US executions.
6 Jan 2012

Doctors call for end to supply of execution drugs

An international coalition of medical professionals has called on the pharmaceuticals company Hospira to prevent their products from being used in US executions.
20 Dec 2011

Europe blocks export of execution drugs

The European Commission has announced that it is blocking the export of certain key lethal injection drugs which are widely used in US executions.
19 Oct 2011

US supplier halts manufacture of execution drug

The Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva is the latest firm to halt the manufacture of drugs used in US executions.
26 Sep 2011

Doctor seeks to stop ‘illegal’ drug use in Florida execution

A leading neurologist who uses drugs produced by the pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck in his work, has taken legal action to prevent their use in lethal injections.
29 Aug 2011

UK parliamentarians join EU and Catholic Church to oppose execution

British Members of Parliament have joined the European Union and Catholic bishops in calls to stop the execution of Manuel Valle in Florida.
26 Jul 2011

Florida stays first execution using new drug due to cruelty concerns

Florida has stayed the execution of Manuel Valle to allow a hearing on whether the use of a new execution drug will cause him unnecessary pain.
28 Jun 2011

Botched US executions indicate failure of new drug

Eyewitness reports on the execution of Roy Blankenship in Georgia US on June 201, suggest that the execution, using pentobarbital, may have been botched.
16 May 2011

Pension fund divests from Lundbeck over concerns on execution drugs

A pension fund has sold a large share holding in the pharmaceutical company Lundbeck over concerns about the use of their drugs in US executions.

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