Drugs giant Pfizer says it won't allow its products to be used for executions
Pfizer Inc has taken steps to ensure that none of its products are used in lethal injections, the largest US drugmaker said on Friday.
"We are enforcing a distribution restriction for specific products that have been part of, or considered by some states for, their lethal injection protocols," the New York-based drugmaker said on its website. "Pfizer strongly objects to the use of its products as lethal injections for capital punishment."
The move shuts off the last remaining open market source of drugs used in executions, following similar actions by more than 20 US and European drugmakers, according to a report in the New York Times on Friday.
The list of products includes the powerful anaesthetic propofol, the drug that caused the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson. The other Pfizer products the drugmaker said it will block from use in executions are pancuronium bromide, potassium...
