Pfizer To Stop Selling Drugs For Use In Lethal Injections

Pfizer To Stop Selling Drugs For Use In Lethal Injections Enlarge this image toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Spencer Platt/Getty Images The pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Friday it will move to prevent its drugs from being used in lethal injections. Pfizer was the "last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions," The New York Times reported. "Pfizer strongly objects to the use of its products as lethal injections for capital punishment." As NPR's Wade Goodwyn reported last year, "this has forced states to seek new formulas using untested doses and find new compounding pharmacies to make their execution drugs."