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Indian firms not to sell sodium thiopental to US jails

Indian firms not to sell sodium thiopental to US jails

Rediff.com6 Apr 2011

Navneet Verma, managing director and CEO, Kayem Pharmaceuticals, has assured Reprieve, a United Kingdom-based provider of legal assistance to prisoners who cannot fend for themselves, that no Indian manufacturer will sell thiopental sodium -- an ingredient used in lethal injections by US Correctional Services -- to jails in the United States that use it for lethal purposes.