As politics is all rage in FUMBBL:

Missouri, US, cannot execute people using propofol because it could lead EU forbidding exporting propofol to US, which would hamper surgeries seriously.

Nature article on subject:
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This is not the first time that the EU’s anti-death-penalty stance has affected the US supply of anaesthetics. Since 2011, a popular sedative called sodium thiopental has been unavailable in the United States. The manufacturer, US company Hospira, abandoned plans to produce the drug at its plant in Italy after regulators in the country required that the thiopental never be used in executions. The drug, which is difficult and costly to make, was already in short supply because of manufacturing problems.

“There has been a collision of the politics of capital punishment in the United States and Europe, forcing us to hopscotch around looking for suitable methods for anaesthesia,” says Jerry Cohen, a former president of the American Society of Anesthesiology.

“The European Union is serious,” says David Lubarsky, head of the anaesthesiology department at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida. “They’ve already shown that with thiopental. If we go down this road with propofol, a lot of good people who need anaesthesia are going to be harmed.”

The loss of thiopental from the anaesthesia arsenal was a relatively minor inconvenience, says Cohen, because propofol provided an alternative. But if propofol is used for executions in Missouri or any other state, it could disappear too, leaving hospitals in a serious bind. “Propofol has a lot of uses for which there are no substitutes,” says Cohen. It is the preferred way to sedate people who have breathing tubes because it acts quickly and does not cause vomiting. Federal regulations make propofol difficult to manufacture in the United States.
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Woo! One life saved for at least some time, with just passive resistance! Go soft power!

:-D