'Dead Man Walking' nun asks Cardinal Health to rec

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'Dead Man Walking' nun asks Cardinal Health to recall execution drug

Sister Helen Prejean, the capital punishment opponent featured in the movie Dead Man Walking, has asked Dublin-based Cardinal Health to recall drugs it sold to the state of Georgia to be used in executions.

The drug, Nembutal, also known as pentobarbital, the same one used in executions in Ohio. It is typically used for treatment of epilepsy and other ailments but kills when administered in massive doses.

"This sale was not for the purpose of 'improving people's lives' as you say on your website," Prejean wrote to George S. Barrett, chairman and chief executive officer, but to kill people."

Prejean said the sale of 30 doses of the drug, which cost $27,000, violates the company's ethics pledge and business code of conduct.

More;
www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/06/22/dead-man-walking-nun-asks-cardinal-health-to-recall-execution-drug.html?sid=101

To see the letter;
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/prejeanletter.pdf

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Death Penalty Opponents Push to Stall Lethal Injections


Back when Florida executed prisoners in an electric chair, part of the ritual involved plunging the entire maximum security state prison into total darkness as they switched off the grid and onto backup generators. The purpose of this exercise was to protect Florida Power and Light from possible bad publicity–a company in the electricity business doesn’t want the words “time of death” linked to its name on the front page.
Death penalty opponents are using that same principle to try to stall executions by lethal injection.

Read more: swampland.time.com/2011/06/22/death-penalty-opponents-push-to-stall-lethal-injections/#ixzz1Q2I2XaEl

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Will Cardinal Health say no to the ‘Dead Man Walking’ nun?
www.medcitynews.com/2011/06/will-cardinal-health-say-no-to-the-dead-man-walking-nun/