Jeffrey Landrigan

Jeffrey Landrigan was convicted of murder in the state of Arizona and was executed on October 26, 2010 by lethal injection. The sodium thiopental used in his execution was obtained from a source in Great Britain due to the shortage in the United States.
Landrigan was found guilty of murdering Chester Dean Dyer during an armed burglary. The jury found Landrigan guilty of murder and Landrigan himself prevented his defense attorney from presenting any mitigating evidence. The judge who sentenced him to death described Landrigan as "a person who has no scruples and no regard for human life and human beings."
Landrigan's execution is significant because one of the drugs used in executions in the United States was in short supply and had to be imported from abroad. Sodium thiopental is a barbiturate and the first of the three drugs used in the American lethal injection cocktail. Hospira has supplied thiopental within the United States, but could not supply Arizona with the dose for the October 2010 execution.
The sodium thiopental used in Landrigan's execution may have come from Great Britain. Great Britain is a member of the European Union where it is illegal to produce chemicals for use in execution within the Union. The EU does not specifically prohibit the export of sodium thiopental to non EU members.
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Arizona convicted killer's last words: 'Boomer Sooner'
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US execution drug not banned for export: EU
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