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An Absolute: Doctors Don't Kill

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That's the title of an OpEd in today's Raleigh News & Observer, written by Charles van der Horst, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  LINK  Here's an excerpt:Since 1977, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized executions after a five-year pause, more than a thousand people have been killed. The messiness of hanging, firing squads, electrocution and gas has limited the use of those methods, leaving lethal injection as the only acceptable option.To be certain that this method is used satisfactorily, some courts or legislatures have decided that physicians must be available to assure proper procedure: that the intravenous lines are in place, that the correct doses of appropriate drugs are given and that the prisoner is actually dead...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 04, 2008 (boomark / email).