Editing Lethal injection (section)

====European Union export ban====
Due to its use for executions in the US, the UK introduced a ban on the export of sodium thiopental in December 2010,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12263460 |title=Drug sold in UK to be used for execution in Georgia |work=BBC News |date=January 14, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922154903/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12263460 |archive-date=September 22, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> after it was established that no European supplies to the US were being used for any other purpose.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11865881 |title=US lethal injection drug faces UK export restrictions |work=BBC News |first=Dominic |last=Casciani |date=November 29, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922154849/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11865881 |archive-date=September 22, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The restrictions were based on "the European Union Torture Regulation (including licensing of drugs used in execution by lethal injection)".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/guidance/controls-on-torture-goods |title=Controls on torture goods |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |date=January 15, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309021241/https://www.gov.uk/guidance/controls-on-torture-goods |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> From December 21, 2011, the European Union extended trade restrictions to prevent the export of certain medicinal products for capital punishment, stating, "The Union disapproves of capital punishment in all circumstances and works towards its universal abolition".<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:338:0031:0034:EN:PDF |title=Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2011 of 20 December 2011 |journal=Official Journal of the European Union |issue=338 |pages=31–34 |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref>