Updated: Arizona execution drug 'supplied by UK firm'
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What is not just a moral debate but also a legal one, there is news that a UK company supplied the drug used in executions in the US. With no death penalties in the UK, a civil rights lawyer is stating a company in the UK should not profit from the sale of drugs used.
""One question that immediately springs to mind is whether it is criminal for the British corporation to profit from such a killing: while the language is loose, EU Council Regulation 1236/2005 takes a step along this path, making it illegal to trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...'"-BBC
The drug was brought due to a shortage in the US, with the courts stating it came from the UK to show the drug came from a 'reputable place', however the company was not named.
[Update] Amnesty International has made it known the drug was being supplied for the death of Jeffrey Landrigan, which they state the Judge in the case said the judgement for the death penalty was wrong. http://blog.amnestyusa.org/deathpenalty/arizona-ignores-trial-judge-kills-prison...
"That’s what former judge Cheryl Hendrix told Arizona’s Board of Executive Clemency in support of Jeffrey Landrigan’s effort to have his death sentence commuted. What’s important about judge Hendrix is that she is the one who sentenced him to death. New information that Landrigan’s lawyer failed to present at the trial convinced her that the death sentence she issued had been wrong.
Unfortunately, the US Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, had already ruled that this new information would NOT have made a difference. That turned out to be flat wrong, but an erroneous Supreme Court ruling that still trumps everything else. The Arizona Board split 2-2 vote, but that, and Governor Jan Brewer, was enough to keep the execution process rolling. "-AI
""One question that immediately springs to mind is whether it is criminal for the British corporation to profit from such a killing: while the language is loose, EU Council Regulation 1236/2005 takes a step along this path, making it illegal to trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...'"-BBC
The drug was brought due to a shortage in the US, with the courts stating it came from the UK to show the drug came from a 'reputable place', however the company was not named.
[Update] Amnesty International has made it known the drug was being supplied for the death of Jeffrey Landrigan, which they state the Judge in the case said the judgement for the death penalty was wrong. http://blog.amnestyusa.org/deathpenalty/arizona-ignores-trial-judge-kills-prison...
"That’s what former judge Cheryl Hendrix told Arizona’s Board of Executive Clemency in support of Jeffrey Landrigan’s effort to have his death sentence commuted. What’s important about judge Hendrix is that she is the one who sentenced him to death. New information that Landrigan’s lawyer failed to present at the trial convinced her that the death sentence she issued had been wrong.
Unfortunately, the US Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, had already ruled that this new information would NOT have made a difference. That turned out to be flat wrong, but an erroneous Supreme Court ruling that still trumps everything else. The Arizona Board split 2-2 vote, but that, and Governor Jan Brewer, was enough to keep the execution process rolling. "-AI
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