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More on the Foreign Drug

By Steve Hall

The Guardian reports, "Executed man's mother urges ban on exports profiting from death penalty."  It's written by Owen Bowcott. The mother of a US death row inmate who was executed with British-supplied drugs is to call for a ban on exports that support capital punishment overseas when she appears before MPs. Patches Rhode believes her son, Brandon, died in agony from a lethal injection in a Georgia prison because the UK-sourced anaesthetic, sodium thiopental, appeared not to have been effective. Her grief has been sharpened by the revelation that the drug which enabled the execution to go ahead was sold by a small-scale pharmaceutical wholesaler, Dream Pharma, that operates out of a driving school office in the west London suburb of Acton...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 14, 2011 (boomark / email).