The European Union is now blocking importation of lethal injection technology into the United States
With its legislation this week limiting our access to the drugs we use to kill one another, the European Union has just proven that if America is still a superpower, that designation must carry a prominent asterisk for how easily we're humbled these days. The EU is now blocking importation of technology into the United States that we cannot be trusted to use properly. As widely reported yesterday, the EU is cutting off our supply to the drugs we use for lethal injections, some of which we no longer have the capacity to manufacture domestically. (...)
America is now the target of a coercive technique that we've regularly used to punish Iran and North Korea.
Source: The Atlantic, Ford Vox, December 21, 2011
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