It'd be nice if a bunch of other companies would be able to find their spines re: objectionable things the government does. Like spying on everyone all the time. You know, like teclos and the like.

It's pretty crazy that drug companies are more ethical than telecoms. Especially considering all the problems with reproducability that we're seeing on the cancer treatment front and plummeting drug effectiveness.

Not sure about those ethics. If you read the article, the main supply restriction was imposed by the European Commission, following the UK government.

The US company that used to make them "suspended production because it was suffering commercially as a result of having its drug connected to executions," not exactly based on moral principles.

There's also the difference that telecoms have (if secret) court orders mandating them to do so, while drug companies only have a few sales to lose (even at the peak of 300+ executions/year, it's probably not a very lucrative business).

Something to think about, is if most of the civilized world sees what the executioners are doing as inherently immoral or unethical, the government has nothing to lose by violating medication licenses and laws, its not like the rest of the world is going to see a tiny little delta in immorality or lack of ethics as being much worse. So simply civil forfeiture a pharmacy safe or a chemical plant warehouse, after all the .gov sees civil forfeiture as a universal good...