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NC Lethal injection update

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

“Should doctors monitor execution? High court wants clarification on law,” is the title of Dan Kane’s report in the News & Observer. The N.C. Supreme Court dove into the two-year stalemate on executions Tuesday by asking attorneys to define what legislators meant by requiring a doctor to be present when convicted murderers are put to death. The debate over the word “present” has created a de facto moratorium on executions in North Carolina. The legal battle pits the N.C. Medical Board against the Department of Correction, which wants a doctor to make sure lethal injections are properly administered. That, the department says, guards against a violation of the constitutional law against cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).