No More Execution Drugs: Pfizer Cuts Off Last US Market Source Of Drugs To Kill Convicts

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has become the lastest drugmaker to implement measures to prevent the U.S. from using its barbiturates, sedatives and other heart-stopping drugs to kill death-row inmates, cutting off the last market source for the 31 death-penalty states.

“Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve,” the company said Friday, adding it “strongly objects to the use of its products as lethal injections for capital punishment.”