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Drugmaker Requests Pentobarbital Not Be Used for Executions

By Steve Hall

Today's Columbus Dispatch reports, "Drugmaker objects to Ohio's new execution plan."  It's written by Alan Johnson. With two convicted murderers scheduled to be executed, and 13 others awaiting death dates, Ohio officials plan to use a new lethal-injection drug over the objections of the manufacturer. Tuesday's announcement by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction that it will switch to pentobarbital from sodium thiopental for executions beginning in March prompted Lundbeck Inc., the sole U.S. manufacturer of the drug, to send a letter of protest. Sally Benjamin Young, vice president for communication for the Danish-based company with U.S. headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., declined to release the letter because it is "private communication...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).