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The Lethal Injection Impasse in North Carolina

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North Carolina's Independent Weekly has, "Resume executions or keep the ban?"  It's reported by Bob Geary.Now that the legal battle over a doctor's role in death row executions is nearing a conclusion, the issue of capital punishment in North Carolina is about to land in the laps of the 2009 General Assembly and Governor-elect Bev Perdue.The state Supreme Court heard arguments Nov. 18 in a case between the N.C. Medical Board and the N.C. Department of Correction over the meaning of a nearly century-old law requiring that a doctor be "present" during an execution. The fight between the two agencies, which began more than two years ago, has resulted in a virtual moratorium on executions; the last one took place in August 2006...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).