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Doctor Banned From Executions in Missouri Now In Arizona

From Standdown BLOG :Doctor Banned From Executions in Missouri Now In Arizona That's the title of a report in today's Arizona Republic. LINK http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/2008/07/doctor-banned-f.html A Missouri surgeon who was banned by a federal judge from taking part in capital executions by lethal injection in his home state apparently participated in Arizona's most recent execution. Dr. Alan Doerhoff is believed to have taken part in the May 22, 2007, execution of Robert Comer, 11 months after Doerhoff's Missouri lethal-injection procedure was ruled unconstitutional and eight months after the physician was prohibited from further executions in Missouri because of questions about his standards and competence. Doerhoff's signature appears below the flat line of an electrocardiogram tape that recorded Comer's last heartbeats, suggesting that Doerhoff at least monitored the murderer's condition in his final moments...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).