Hospira stops making execution drug

January 25, 2011

US pharmaceutical giant Hospira has announced it will stop making anaesthetic sodium thiopental because it doesn’t want it to be used for capital punishment. Sodium thiopental is one of the cocktail of drugs administered during lethal injections in the US. Manufacturing problems have seen the anaesthetic in short supply for about a year, and Hospira was planning to move production to its factory in Italy. However Italian authorities will only allow the drug to be made there if Hospira can guarantee it won’t be used in executions - which the company says is impossible to ensure because it’s unable to track its distribution through several US wholesalers.

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