Tell the UK not to export execution drugs to the US!

As you may have heard, the US is having a bit of trouble executing it's citizen's at the moment due to a shortage of sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in the lethal injection cocktail. The obvious, intelligent and long-overdue thing to do would be to call a moratorium on executions, but insead they've decided to obtain the drug from British manufacturers.

The UK hasn't had the death penalty on it's statutes since 1998, and the last execution was way back in '64. Despite what some of our citizens might think (you should hear some of them in my RE class...) the UK does not support the death penalty - we already ban the export of guillotines and tools used in gas chambers and electrocutions - so the export of a drug used to carry out lethal injections is a clear violation of our government's position on the death penalty.

Vince Cable, the British Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, refused to block the export of the drug for executions, although the law allows him to. The issue is now before UK courts, but please sign the petition urging Cable to change his position and ban the drug's export for executions!


Click Here to Sign the Petition

By the way, you can sign the petition even if you're not from the UK, although if you are that would be great! Let them know we do NOT support the death penalty, and we do NOT support other countries carrying it out either! Thanks everyone :)

- ScofieldBurrows