Troy Davis case brings calls for execution drug controls  EU
should impose stringent controls on lethal injection drugs to
prevent complicity in US executions, say campaigners Troy Davis
Troy Davis case has led to calls for more stringent controls on
lethal execution drugs. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images  The case
of death row inmate Troy Davis should spur the European Union
into imposing stringent controls on drugs used in lethal
injections to prevent EU companies from being complicit in
further US executions, according to human rights campaigners.
Pentobarbital, one of the three drugs set to be used to kill
Davis, was bought from the Danish pharmaceutical company
Lundbeck before it announced strict controls on the sale of the
drug earlier this summer.  Lundbeck, which manufactures the drug
in the US under the tradename Nembutal, now demands that its US
distributors sign an agreement stating that they will not make
pentobarbital, which is a sedative with a wide range of uses,
available for prisons using it fo