Reprieve—Edmund Zagorski's case history

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Expert says British execution drugs exported by Dream Pharma do not work properly; prisoners die excruciating deaths in Georgia

Last night, at 11.39 EST (6.39am GMT today), Emanuel Hammond was executed in Georgia using drugs sold by the Acton-based pharmaceutical company Dream Pharma.

26 January 2011
Managing Director Matt Alavi knew Dream Pharma drugs would be used to kill; prisoner due to die tomorrow with British drugs unless UK intervenes

Reprieve today reveals that British businessman Matt Alavi of Dream Pharma knew his drugs would be used to kill and expedited prison orders for that reason.

24 January 2011
Hospira to stop producing execution drug

The sole US manufacturer of lethal injection drug sodium thiopental has announced that it is permanently halting production of the drug, potentially delaying executions across the USA.

21 January 2011
Listen to Clive Stafford Smith on the Today programme

Reprieve's Director talks about the export of execution drugs from Britain to the US.

28 December 2010
British government must intervene TODAY to stop California obtaining UK drugs to kill 85 prisoners in the US; shipment of lethal injection drug now in transit but may be stopped by immediate action

Business Secretary Vince Cable now has a matter of hours to prevent British-sourced lethal injection drug sodium thiopental from reaching US executioners, after it emerged that California has already paid for a shipment from the UK.

07 December 2010
Cable U-turns on execution drug

by Ian Dunt, politics.co.uk, 29/11/2010

02 December 2010
Human rights victory as Vince Cable imposes restrictions on export of 'execution' drug to U.S.

Daily Mail, 29/11/2010

02 December 2010
US lethal injection drug faces UK export restrictions

by Dominic Casciani, BBC, 29/11/2010

02 December 2010
A welcome U-turn from Vince Cable on execution drug

by Clive Stafford Smith, The Guardian, 29/11/2010

02 December 2010
Press conference today in Italy: Reprieve and Hands Off Cain challenge Italian trade in execution drug sodium thiopental

Reprieve will today join an alliance of international lawyers in calling for a ban on the production of execution drug sodium thiopental by the Italian factory of international drug company Hospira.

02 December 2010
British government changes tune; issues immediate ban on the export of lethal injection drugs from Britain for American executions

After resisting Reprieve’s efforts to secure a ban on the export of Sodium Thiopental to the US for execution purposes for a month, today Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, agreed to impose such an order.

29 November 2010
John Duty: human guinea pig in Oklahoma's cruel experiment

by Clive Stafford Smith, The Guardian: Comment is Free, 24/11/2010

24 November 2010
Abolitionists call on Italy not to collaborate with US lethal injection

Hands Off Cain, 24/11/2010

24 November 2010
British company supplying death row chemical to US sued by London law firm

Daily Mail, 02/11/2010

23 November 2010
High Court hears second day of arguments in execution drug export case

Reprieve and UK lawyers Leigh Day & Co are today in the High Court seeking to prevent further exports to the United States of sodium thiopental, a drug used in lethal injections.

22 November 2010
High Court hears arguments on UK government decision not to ban further exports to the United States of execution drug sodium thiopental

Reprieve and British lawyers Leigh Day & Co are in the High Court today seeking to prevent further exports to the United States of sodium thiopental, a drug used in lethal injections.

17 November 2010
Legal action over execution drug to go ahead in the British High Court

High Court agrees to hear Reprieve’s judicial review of British government’s failure to halt export of execution drug from Britain; current time frame will not prevent next shipment and Reprieve is now seeking a temporary export ban until the matter can be heard.

03 November 2010
British groups seek to stop execution drug

United Press International, 02/11/2010

03 November 2010
Government sued over drugs used in U.S. executions

by Anna Yukhananov, Reuters, 02/11/2010

03 November 2010
Death penalty campaigners try to halt sales of UK-made execution drug

by Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, 02/11/2010

03 November 2010
Suit Targets Execution Drug

by Nathan Koppel, Wall Street Journal, 03/11/2010

03 November 2010
British government sued for allowing the continued export of lethal injection drugs from Britain for American executions

Leigh Day & Co. and Reprieve will today launch legal action against the British government on behalf of Edmund Zagorski, a US prisoner facing imminent execution with drugs imported from Britain.

02 November 2010
The British company making a business out of killing

by Clive Stafford Smith, The Guardian, 26/10/2011

27 October 2010

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