The execution of Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan, who had been convicted of murder in the state of

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, was carried out on October 26, 2010 by lethal injection. Landrigan was found guilty of murdering Chester Dean Dyer during an

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. At the time of the murder, he was a fugitive who'd escaped from an Oklahoma prison, where he was serving a 20-year sentence for the 1982 murder of Greg Brown, his best friend. Landrigan was initially sentenced to death in that case, but his conviction was later overturned and he pleaded guilty to second degree murder. The jury found him guilty of murder and Landrigan himself prevented his defense attorney from presenting any

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. The judge who sentenced him to death described Landrigan as "a person who has no scruples and no regard for human life and human beings".Murder of Chester Dean Dyer
clarkprosecutor.org, accessed May 7, 2014. One of the drugs used in executions in the United States was in short supply and had to be imported from abroad.

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is a barbiturate and the first of the three drugs used in the American lethal injection cocktail.

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has supplied thiopental within the United States, but could not supply Arizona with the dose for the October 2010 execution. The sodium thiopental used in Landrigan's execution may have come from the UK. In the

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(EU), it is illegal to produce chemicals used in capital punishment. The EU did not initially specifically ban the exporting of sodium thiopental to non-EU members as the drug has medicinal uses, but, effective December 21, 2011, the EU extended trade restrictions. Due to its use in executions in the United States, the UK, then still part of the EU, introduced a ban on the export of sodium thiopental in December 2010, after it was established that European supplies to the US were not being used for any other purpose. The restrictions were based on ''"the European Union Torture Regulation (including licensing of drugs used in

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)"''.UK government web site: Controls on Torture Goods
accessed September 10, 2021. Landrigan was the 44th convicted murderer executed in the United States in 2010; the 1,232nd executed in the United States since 1976; the first murderer executed in Arizona in 2010, and the 24th murderer executed in Arizona since 1976.

List of people executed in Arizona This list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arizona since capital punishment was resumed in 1976 comprises 40 persons, all male, convicted of murder and executed at Florence State Prison in Florence, Arizona.List of people executed in the United States in 2010 This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2010. Forty-six people were executed in the United States in 2010. Seventeen of them were in the state of Texas. One ( Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis) was female. One (Paul Warner Powell) was exec ...

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