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Hospira & Florida

By Steve Hall

"Company urged Florida not to use its drug in execution 'cocktail'," is the title of Anthony Colarossi's report for the Orlando Sentinel. For years, Illinois-based Hospira Inc. worried about its drugs being used across the country for lethal injections. So, a company spokesman says, Hospira sent letters to all the states annually ? including Florida ? stating its opposition to the drugs' use to carry out death sentences. But the states, including Florida, continued using at least one Hospira product in the three-drug "cocktail" approved for executions. There was nothing illegal about that, but their continued use of Hospira products to execute inmates ultimately compelled the company last month to announce its decision to stop all production of its trademarked anesthetic, Pentothal...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).