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USA: FEDERAL JUDGE BARS IMPORT OF EXECUTION DRUG

March 27, 2012: U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington issued the 22-page decision in a case filed by 21 condemned convicts against the federal Food and Drug Administration, which they alleged had violated its own rules by allowing entry of the powerful anaesthetic into the United States without first ensuring its efficacy.
“Prisoners on death row have an unnecessary risk that they will not be anesthetized properly prior to execution,” Leon wrote in his order. Leon ordered five states — Arizona, California, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee — and any others with stocks of the barbiturate to surrender them to the FDA. According to court filings, the shipments of thiopental entering the United States came from an Austrian facility owned by Sandoz International GmbH.
The drug was shipped from a London wholesaler, Dream Pharma Ltd., which purchased it from a third firm, the Britain-based Archimedes Pharma Ltd., the filings state. A lawyer for the death row challengers, Brad Berenson, said in an email that "it was especially gratifying that the court recognized that even the most despised members of our society are entitled to the protections Congress gave to all Americans in the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act."
"Here, the threatened injury — that unapproved foreign thiopental will fail to anesthetize plaintiffs properly during execution, causing conscious suffocation, pain, and cardiac arrest — is, to say the least, severe," the judge wrote.
"Indeed, few in our society are more vulnerable than a death row inmate facing lethal injection." (Sources: Star Tribune, Statesman.com, 27/03/2012)

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: MINISTERS IN FAVOR OF AN IRREVERSIBLE MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
INDIA: MAN GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR KIDNAPPING, MURDER
AFGHANISTAN: WOMAN EXTRA-JUDICIALLY EXECUTED OVER ILLICIT RELATIONS
JAPAN: PRIME MINISTER YOSHIHIKO NODA STANDS BY USE OF DEATH PENALTY
INDIA: AKALI DAL PARTY CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
EU 'REGRETS' JAPAN EXECUTIONS, URGES MORATORIUM
CHINA: THREE EXECUTED OVER FATAL FIRE
MALAYSIA: TWO MYANMAR WOMEN AND TWO LOCALS TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
JAPAN: 3 INMATES HANGED; 1ST EXECUTIONS SINCE JULY 2010
ZIMBABWE PLANS TO CUT BACK ON HANGINGS, DEATH PENALTY ONLY FOR 'EXTREME VIOLENCE'
TEXAS (USA): JESSE JOE HERNANDEZ EXECUTED
MALAYSIA: ‘THE DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE MAINTAINED FOR NOW’
MALAYSIA: NIGERIAN TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
DEATH PENALTY 2011: ALARMING LEVELS OF EXECUTIONS IN THE FEW COUNTRIES THAT KILL
UAE: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
SAUDI ARABIA: RELIGIOUS POLICE GIVEN MORE POWERS TO STEP UP WAR ON SORCERY
UGANDA: PRESIDENT MUSEVENI PARDONS SHARMA KOOKY
INDIA: STAYED EXECUTION
JAMAICA: CHILD KILLER'S DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED
CHINA: UIGHUR MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER XINJIANG ATTACKS
MALAYSIA: 860 PRISONERS UNDER DEATH SENTENCE
BANGLADESH: SAGAR TO HANG FOR KILLING SHUBHO
NIGERIA: SUPREME COURT RE-AFFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE ON KILLER SECURITY GUARD
ZIMBABWE: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RITUAL MURDER
THAILAND: CHALERM PUSHES FOR EARLY EXECUTION OF DRUG CONVICTS
CHINA TO ABOLISH TRANSPLANTING ORGANS FROM CONDEMNED PRISONERS WITHIN 3-5 YEARS
MISSISSIPPI (USA): WILLIAM MITCHELL EXECUTED
MALAYSIA: FORMER POSTMAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
SINGAPORE: MAN FACES DEATH PENALTY FOR STABBING AND KILLING WOMAN
EGYPT: SUSPECT SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER VILLAGE MASSACRE OF 15

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