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More Questions About the British Sodium Thiopental

By Steve Hall

"Death row drugs 'may be defective'," is the report from the UK's Press Association.  It's via Google News. Here's an extended excerpt: Drugs used for lethal injection in the US which were supplied by a west London-based pharmaceutical company may have been defective, leading to potentially agonising deaths for prisoners, according to an expert on execution. 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 which was used in the execution of convicted murderer Emmanuel Hammond in Georgia on Tuesday. Before the execution Mark Heath filed a sworn declaration which raised concerns over whether the thiopental sold to Georgia Department of Corrections "lacked efficacy"...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 27, 2011 (boomark / email).