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The US state of Arizona has revealed that a drug it uses for executions has been supplied by a UK company.
The admission came shortly before Jeffrey Landrigan was put to death after the Supreme Court lifted a federal judge's stay of execution.
The delay was based on objections that the drug was not US approved.
Arizona had to import the anaesthetic sodium thiopental after US supplies ran out. Concern has been raised in the UK, where there is no death penalty.
Arizona said it wanted to show the drug came from a "reputable place", in the first acknowledgement by a US state that sodium thiopental supplies come from outside the US.
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