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Article

12 Jul 2013

Author:
Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress (USA)

How International Opposition To The Death Penalty Is Pushing State Officials Into A Corner

Last week, Missouri’s Attorney General told a court he might resort to reviving gas chambers to carry out executions in his state, intent on moving forward with scheduled death sentences in spite of limited access to the cocktail of drugs typically used in lethal injections...[These] practices...raise alarm bells about how states are overcoming obstacles to approved methods of execution to move forward with the death penalty at any price. A growing number of European and Asian companies that make the drugs used in executions are refusing on ethical grounds to distribute their drugs for use in executions, and the European Commission has imposed tight restrictions on export of certain drugs for execution, in furtherance of its position that the death penalty is cruel and inhuman...Lundbeck called [use]...of its...drug for the death penalty a “drastic misuse.” [also refers to Teva]