Lethal injections drugs used to carry out executions in the U.S. have been supplied by a British businessman, it emerged today. Mehdi Alavi runs his pharmaceutical company Dream Pharma from the Elgone Driving Academy in Acton, London. In September he sold the state of Arizona £4,253 of drugs to be used to carry out lethal injections, according to the BBC. The chemicals were...used to execute Jeffrey Landrigan, a 50-year-old murderer, in October...State documents revealed how officials had procured the drugs from Britain after a shortage in the States...Sodium thiopental is the first of a sequence of three drugs administered in lethal injections that paralyse breathing and stop the heart...Mr Alavi, when confronted by the BBC, said: 'I am not interested in making any comment.'