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"Executions pose dilemma for doctors," is the report in the Raleigh News & Observer.Doctors were never meant to play an active role in executions, the N.C. Medical Board argues in a brief it filed Wednesday with the N.C. Supreme Court. The board, which is embroiled in a legal challenge over the way North Carolina carries out the death penalty, contends that the state legislature used specific language requiring doctors to "be present" at executions, but explicitly did not say they should participate. The role that doctors should play in executions is at the center of a controversy over the use of lethal injections for executions. Prison officials sued the medical board last year after doctors refused to participate in executions for fear of being disciplined by the board...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).