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More on British Execution Drug Supplies

By Steve Hall

"US execution drugs supplied secretly by British companies," is the title of Mark Townsend's report for the Observer.  It's via the Guardian. British companies have secretly supplied two previously undisclosed lethal injection drugs for executing American prisoners, provoking calls for an immediate export ban on the whole cocktail of drugs used on death row. Documents from American authorities reveal that potassium chloride and pancuronium bromide have been exported. Until now it was thought that only one execution drug, sodium thiopental, was being supplied by a British company. When news of that chemical's export to America surfaced, it caused such condemnation that the business secretary, Vince Cable, unveiled new export controls on the drug forbidding its use in executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).