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More From Raymond Bonner

By Steve Hall

"Foreign Companies Eye U.S. Market for Lethal Injection Drugs," appears at the Atlantic.  Bonner, Letter From Europe appeared in the New York Times earlier this week. Denmark hasn't had a civilian execution since 1882 and the country banned capital punishment in 1933, except for war crimes, and that exception was removed from the law in 1978. But next Tuesday, Texas plans to use a drug supplied by a Danish pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck, in the scheduled execution of Cleve Foster, a former Army sergeant convicted for the murder of a 30-year-old woman he had met in a bar. (Foster has always maintained his innocence.) The Lundbeck drug has already been used for three executions in Oklahoma and one in Ohio, and other states have purchased the drug...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).