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| UK Getting Legal Over Execution Drug Coming To US |
| By axisoflogic.com |
| Published: 11/05/2010 |
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LONDON - A group opposed to the death penalty filed a lawsuit 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 legal advocacy 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 United States, was scheduled to be exported from Britain to Tennessee imminently, 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. "All it would take to prevent the death of Mr. Zagorski and others" would be for Business Secretary Vince Cable to issue an emergency order regulating the export of sodium thiopental, said Reprieve spokeswoman Katherine O'Shea. Read More. |
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