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interesting new lethal injection development

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via Stand Down,  ”British death drug ‘failed to work’,” is the UK Press Association report, via Google News. A third American prisoner died in agony after an anaesthetic supplied by a British company failed to work properly, it has been claimed. Dream Pharma, a small company run from the back of the Elgone Driving Agency in Horn Lane, Acton, west London, is understood to have supplied the anaesthetic sodium thiopental used in the US executions of Emmanuel Hammond, Brandon Rhode and Jeffrey Landrigan. A claim has now emerged that Landrigan, a convicted murderer, kept his eyes open after receiving a lethal injection – an apparent sign that the anaesthetic had not worked. Dale Baich, a lawyer who witnessed the execution in Arizona last October, made the disclosure in a sworn statement for legal action charity Reprieve’s pending High Court action...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).