British firm denies exporting drug for Arizona execution
Archimedes Pharma UK says it has no control over how anaesthetic
is used after being sold to medical suppliers Executed murderer
Jeffrey Landrigan An anaesthetic manufactured by Archimedes
Pharma UK was used during the execution of Jeffrey Landrigan.
Photograph: Ho/AFP/Getty Images  The British manufacturer of a
drug used in the execution of an Arizonian man this week has
said it had no control over how its anaesthetic was used once it
was sold to medical suppliers, amid calls for tighter regulation
of the export of drugs used to carry out the death penalty.
Archimedes Pharma UK, based in Reading, the only British firm to
make the drug, denied knowingly providing it for use prior to
the lethal injection of a convicted murderer on Tuesday.
Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Centre in
Washington said that the British government should act to
prevent the "outsourcing" of the death penalty after Arizona's
attorney general said his state obta