Danish Drug Maker Opposes Using His Drug to Kill Floridian Tomorrow
September 27, 2011 at 7:53 PM Leave a comment
I have no doubt Florida’s Tea Party Governor, Rick Scott, will blow this off as stupid stuff. After all, he’s gotta look tough:
The head of a Danish drug company has written to Rick Scott, the governor of Florida, to protest about the use of one of its anaesthetics in the execution of a Cuban national scheduled to take place on Wednesday.
Staffan Schuberg, president of Lundbeck, the manufacturers of pentobarbital under the trademark Nembutal, has sent two letters to the governor expressing his “adamant” opposition to what would be Florida’s first use of the drug as part of a lethal injection. Barring an eleventh-hour stay, the three-drug cocktail will be administered to Manuel Valle, 61, at 3pm for the 1989 murder of a police officer.
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The company also enlisted the support of the Danish government, which has written to the governors of the states using the drug through its embassy in Washington.
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