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| Sister Helen Prejean |
Sister Helen Prejean, the capital punishment opponent featured in the movie Dead Man Walking, has asked Dublin-based Cardinal Health to recall a drug it sold to the state of Georgia that is used in executions.
The drug, Nembutal, also known as pentobarbital, is the same one used in executions in Ohio. It is typically prescribed for treatment of epilepsy and other ailments, but kills when administered in massive doses or as part of a trio of drugs used for lethal injections.
Prejean said the sale of 30 doses of the drug, which cost $27,000, violates Cardinal Health's company ethics pledge and business code of conduct.
"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."
Source: Columbus Dispatch, June 22, 2011
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