- Target:
- Vince Cable MP (buisness secretary)
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.reprieve.org.uk
Since 1976, 1173 people (September 2009) have been executed in the USA. THe majority of these executions were by lethal injection. Most procedures require the use of three drugs: sodium thiopental; pancuronium bromide and potassium bromide.
Last year, the charity Reprieve found that the British company Dream Pharma were exporting sodium thiopental for use in executions. This eventually led to the buisness seretary banning the drugs export.
However there are no controls on the export of the other two drugs and there is growing evidence that companies may be planning to export these drugs to America.
It's time to stop the use of British drugs for executions which deny basic human rights and threaten to execute innocent individuals (over 100 people have been released from death rows across the USA since 1976)
Join the petition today... before we have an innocent man's blood on our hands.
We, the undersigned, call upon the business secretary Vince Cable to ban the export of the drugs Pancuronium Bromide and Potassium Chloride for use in execution procedures.
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The End the export of British drugs for executions petition to Vince Cable MP (buisness secretary) was written by Alasdair Fletcher and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.