Europe moves to block trade in medical drugs used in US executions

In the United States, 34 states practice the death penalty.  Those that do have recently been facing a shortage of the drug used in these procedures.  This has been recently exasperated by the fact that now the European Commission has issued tough new restrictions that will make it even more difficult to get the drug.  This has been done with the motive to extinguish the death penalty across the world.  This is what Europe, the UK specifically, is trying to do with these new restrictions.