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British Group Sues to Stop Export of Execution Drug

By Steve Hall

"Britons suing over U.S. execution drug," is the AP report via the Austin American-Statesman. A rights group opposed to the death penalty filed suit Tuesday to try to prevent a British company from exporting a drug that could be used in the execution of an American inmate. Reprieve, a London-based rights group, and the London law firm Leigh Day & Co. are suing in the hope of forcing the government to regulate the export of sodium thiopental. The sedative, which is part of the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections in the U.S., was scheduled to be exported from Britain to Tennessee soon, Reprieve said. The group warned that sodium thiopental would be used in the execution of 56-year-old Edmund Zagorski, who has been convicted of committing two murders in 1983...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).