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More on Pentobarbital Maker Lundbeck

By Steve Hall

"AP Exclusive: Danes won?t block execution drug," is the report via Google News.  It's also available from the Las Vegas Sun and Ohio.com. A Danish company that unwittingly has become a key supplier of an execution drug in the U.S. says it's not going to withdraw or restrict it, even though it objects to the chemical being "misused" for capital punishment. Lundbeck A/S is doing "all we can" to dissuade U.S. states from using pentobarbital for lethal injections, but won't pull it from the U.S. market, CEO Ulf Wiinberg told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Pentobarbital is a sedative with a range of medical uses, including treatment of epileptic seizures. It also is used to euthanize animals...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).