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| Execution Drug In Limited Supply From UK For Moral Reasons |
| By online.wsj.com |
| Published: 11/30/2010 |
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The U.K., in a decision to underscore its "moral opposition to the death penalty," plans to limit the export of a drug used widely in U.S. executions. The U.K. government said Monday in a London court that it would issue an order requiring anyone supplying the anesthetic thiopental sodium to the U.S. to first obtain an export license. Licenses will be denied if a risk exists that thiopental will be used in executions, said a government spokesman. The decision follows a lawsuit filed this month in U.K's High Court on behalf of condemned Tennessee inmate Edmund Zagorski. The suit was prompted by the state's alleged ordering of thiopental from a foreign source, possibly in the U.K., to carry out Mr. Zagorski's execution. The suit sought a U.K. ban on thiopental exports. Read More. |
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