The UK is to ban the export of the drug propofol, a heavy-duty anaesthetic, which is to be used in the United States for the lethal injection of inmates.
Legislative controls, which were announced by business secretary Vince Cable on Wednesday, follow an announcement in May from the Missouri Department of Corrections that the state is to switch to propofol, the anaesthetic blamed for the death of Michael Jackson, as a single-drug solution for state executions. (Huffington Post.)
Legislative controls, which were announced by business secretary Vince Cable on Wednesday, follow an announcement in May from the Missouri Department of Corrections that the state is to switch to propofol, the anaesthetic blamed for the death of Michael Jackson, as a single-drug solution for state executions. (Huffington Post.)