US supplier halts manufacture of execution drug | Ekklesia: "The Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva is the latest firm to halt the manufacture of drugs used in US executions. The company has announced that it is to stop making pancuronium bromide, the second drug in the three-part lethal injection ‘cocktail’ used by the majority of states which have the death penalty. The company's decision leaves the Illinois based pharmaceutical company Hospira as the only supplier of pancuronium to US death rows.
Teva is the latest firm to have halted or restricted the supply of execution drugs. The Danish based company Lundbeck took steps earlier this year to prevent the supply of their drugs to US death rows. Similar action has also been taken by the Indian supplier, Kayem Pharma; Austrian manufacturer, Sandoz; and by the UK-based distributor, Dream Pharma."
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