"Drug company named in lethal injection case", 1 Sep 2015

Add another drug company to the list of potential sources of Alabama’s death penalty drugs — a list state officials have long tried to keep secret.

Court documents filed last month in the case of death row inmate Tommy Arthur suggest New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer Becton Dickinson could be a maker of the midazolam Alabama uses as the first element of its three-drug execution protocol.

The company, in a written statement, said its drugs are not intended for sale to U.S. prisons, and that its distributors have been warned of that fact. The company will take an “appropriate course of action” against any distributor found selling midazolam to prisons, according to the statement.

[also refers to Akorn Pharmaceuticals, Mylan]