Arizona’s Attorney General Terry Goddard has reportedly confirmed that his state’s stash of non-FDA approved sodium thiopental came from Great Britain. The state continues to try to kill Jeffrey Landrigan with this drug, and continues to try to keep details of their supplier a secret, using a law that shields the Arizona’s execution team from public scrutiny. So an as yet unnamed British pharmaceutical company is now a member of Arizona’s execution team. If/when the name of the company is revealed, it will be interesting to see how the shareholders and pensioners with investments in that company feel about being one of Arizona’s executioners. There is also this, from Clive Stafford Smith in the Guardian, who asserts that EU regulations may have made this trafficking in lethal injection drugs from Britain illegal.
As our allies in Europe are dragged into this sordid execution mess, Arizona soldiers on with its attempt to carry out this execution (in defiance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights). The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court are likely to weigh in later today.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Arizona Execution Drugs Came From Great Britain | Amnesty International USA Blog
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