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: StandDown Texas Project

Ohio Can't Stop EMTs Working as Executioners

By Steve Hall

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That's the title of Andrew Welsh-Huggins AP report via the Clinton News Herald.  LINKOhio has no authority to stop certified emergency medical technicians from working as executioners in death penalty cases because they are not acting as EMTs when putting people to death, a state attorney ruled Wednesday. The EMTs are included on the state execution team because they possess skills such as inserting IV needles, not because they are working as EMTs under medical direction, according to the legal opinion by Heather Frient, a lawyer with the Ohio Department of Public Safety.The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has two certified EMTs on its execution team. The state's chief executioner, who was an EMT, retired last month...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).

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