Another manufacturer blocks drug for execution use

Published September 27, 2012 10:20pm ET



COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A manufacturer of the anesthetic blamed for Michael Jackson’s death said Thursday it won’t sell propofol for use in U.S. executions, a setback for Missouri and other states looking for an alternative after other drug makers also objected to their products’ use in lethal injections.

Drug maker Fresenius Kabi USA, a German company with U.S. offices based in Schaumburg, Ill., is one of only two domestic suppliers of propofol, and is the only one currently distributing in the U.S. Earlier this year, Missouri adopted a new single-drug execution method that would make it the first state to use propofol on death-row inmates. Other states also have considered incorporating the drug into their lethal injections.

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