Brussels, 21/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission decided on Tuesday 20 December to extend the list of goods subject to export controls “to prevent their use for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
Thus, trade of certain anaesthetics, such as sodium thiopental, which can be used in lethal injections, to countries that have not yet abolished the death penalty, will be tightly controlled and made subject to prior...