article_snippet: In a move that could heighten the hurdles faced by states attempting to execute prisoners, a leading association for U.S. pharmacists has officially discouraged a leading association for U.S. pharmacists members from providing drugs for use in lethal injections.
article_snippet: The policy adopted by American Pharmacists Association delegates at American Pharmacists Association delegates Monday makes an ethical stand against providing such drugs, saying American Pharmacists Association delegates run contrary to the role of pharmacists as health care providers.
article_snippet: American Pharmacists Association lacks legal authority to bar American Pharmacists Association more than 62,000 members from selling execution drugs, but American Pharmacists Association policies set pharmacists' ethical standards.
article_snippet: Execution chamber: American Pharmacists Association has approved a proposal declaring that participation in lethal injection executions by compounding pharmacies would be a violation of core pharmacy values (file photo)
article_snippet: Pharmacists now join doctors in having national associations with ethics codes that restrict credentialed members from participating in executions. '
article_snippet: Prison departments turned to made-to-order execution drugs from compounding pharmacies because pharmaceutical manufacturers refused to sell the drugs used for decades in lethal injections after coming under pressure from death penalty opponents.
article_snippet: Pharmacists now join doctors in having national associations with ethics codes that restrict credentialed members from participating in executions (file photo)
highlights_snippet: The American Pharmacists Association has officially discouraged The American Pharmacists Association members from providing drugs for use in lethal injections .
  
highlights_snippet: The policy adopted at their annual meeting Monday says providing such drugs runs contrary to the role of pharmacists as health care providers .
  
highlights_snippet: The American Pharmacists Association lacks legal authority to bar The American Pharmacists Association more than 62,000 members from selling execution drugs, but The American Pharmacists Association policies set pharmacists' ethical standards .