Category - lethal injections

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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.
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.
26 Sep 2012

Health care company acts to block use of propofol in US executions

Health care company Fresenius Kabi has put in place a system of distribution controls to prevent its product from being used off-label for executions by lethal injection.