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Arizona Lethal Injection Complaint Lodged With FDA

By Steve Hall

"Lawyer files complaint over British execution drug," is the AFP report via Google News. A lawyer representing a death row inmate executed with an anesthetic imported from Britain is urging US officials to launch an investigation on the use of the drug. Dale Baich, with the Federal Public Defender's office in Phoenix, Arizona made his request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after the southwestern state executed 48-year-old Jeffrey Landrigan on October 26 using imported sodium thiopental. For months now, several US states have struggled to find supplies of the powerful painkiller, the first and most crucial of three drugs used in lethal injections. The shortage has forced some states to put executions on hold...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).