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Pentobarbital Maker Asks That Drug Not Be Used for Executions

By Steve Hall

"Drug maker asks Ohio, Oklahoma not to use sedative for putting inmates to death," is the title of Andrew Welsh-Huggins' widely distributed AP report. The sole U.S. manufacturer of a sedative that Ohio plans to use to execute death row inmates - and that Oklahoma already uses to do so - said Wednesday it opposes the practice and has asked both states to stop using the drug. Pentobarbital maker Lundbeck Inc. says it never intended for the drug to be used to put inmates to death. "This goes against everything we're in business to do," Sally Benjamin Young, spokeswoman for the Denmark-based company's U.S. headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., told The Associated Press. "We like to develop and make available therapies that improve people's lives," she said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 27, 2011 (boomark / email).