Reprieve charity says imported British anaesthetics failed to work on US inmates, causing 'excruciating' agony
guardian.co.uk, Owen Bowcott, Sunday 20 February 2011
All three US death row inmates executed using imported British anaesthetics may have died in "excruciating" agony because the drugs failed to work, the anti-capital punishment charity Reprieve has claimed. The organisation has begun legal action against the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) aimed at forcing a recall of the batch of sodium thiopental that is alleged not to have worked as a painkiller. The drug was supplied by a London wholesaler, Dream Pharma Ltd, before the government imposed export controls.
Witnesses at the executions of Brandon Rhode and Emanuel Hammond in Georgia, as well as Jeffrey Landrigan in Arizona, reported that they kept their eyes open after the lethal injection began rather than lapsing into a coma as is normal. Dream Pharma has repeatedly declined to comment.
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