Arizona execution stirs controversy in Britain

The planned execution of a murderer by lethal injection in Arizona is stirring some controversy in Britain after it emerged that one of the drugs to be used to end the killer's life was obtained there.

Jeffrey Landrigan, 50, was sentenced to death for strangling Chester Dean Dyer in December 1989, and has spent more than two decades on death row. British daily newspaper The Guardian carried an opinion piece by prominent civil rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith on Tuesday, calling for the naming and shaming of the British company "making a business out of killing." (Reuters)