Pfizer bans drugs for lethal injections
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer says it won't allow any of its drugs to be used in lethal injections to execute death row inmates.
The move apparently shuts off the last remaining open-market source of drugs for executions in the US.
Pfizer is one of Ireland's biggest pharmaceutical multinationals and employs 800 people Leeside in its Ringaskiddy and Little Island plants.
The firm says its medicines are for saving or improving lives and strongly objects to the use of its products in capital punishment.
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