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Court: Doctor must be present during execution

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RALEIGH -- The North Carolina Supreme Court issued its ruling Friday on doctors being present during executions.Last November, the court began hearing arguments on what roles, if any, doctors should play in executions.Previously, the North Carolina Medical Board did not want doctors to participate in executions. And if a doctor did, he or she could face disciplinary action.According to the board, a doctor assisted execution violated a code of ethics that doctors must uphold. However, attorneys for the Department of Correction argued that doctors are needed during an execution to monitor an inmate's vital signs and to certify an inmate's death.Lawyers for the state argued that a doctor should monitor an execution to prevent cruel or unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on May 04, 2009 (boomark / email).

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