Bid to ban export of 'execution' drug

[oldironside]

"An attempt will be made at the High Court today to prevent a British company exporting a drug which could be used in the execution of US prisoners.

Solicitors representing two clients on Death Row and human rights group Reprieve are challenging Business Secretary Vince Cable's refusal to ban the overseas sale of sodium thiopental.

The strong painkiller is given as the first of a cocktail of three drugs used in US state lethal injections.

London-based solicitors firm Leigh Day & Co, acting for prisoners Edmund Zagorski and Ralph Baze, argue that Mr Cable's refusal was wrong in law."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bid-to-ban-export-of-execution-drug-2136349.html

Given our own experiences of miscarriages of justice, it is a joke that we should be helping the Americans to commit judicial murder. This export should be banned now.

[saigon68]

1. They also need to look into Zyklon B