Drug Maker to Quit Producing Execution Cocktail Ingredient 3.91K Jeff Neumann 01/22/11 11:55AM Filed to: Death Penalty Death Penalty Lethal Injection Drugs Texas Hospira Sodium thiopental Gettypic Under pressure from Italy, Hospira—the U.S. company that produces a drug used in lethal injections, sodium thiopental—is going to stop producing it, forcing states to look for other drugs to kill people with (like this one). [WaPo]
