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Letter From Europe

By Steve Hall

That's the heading of Raymond Bonner's European reports for the New York Times.  Today, he writes, "Drug Company in Cross Hairs of Death Penalty Opponents." Virtually all European countries ban capital punishment, and the European Union has been a leader in the effort to ban it worldwide. But that has not stopped European companies from contributing to the active death penalty machine in the United States through the supply of drugs used in lethal injections. A Danish pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck, has become the latest to supply a drug to U.S. death penalty states ? Ohio used it to put a man to death two weeks ago, and Texas is planning to use it in an execution scheduled for April 5. That has put the medium-size company in the cross hairs of death penalty opponents...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).