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Lake hospital's letters deal crucial blow to credibility of execution doctor

Lake hospital's letters deal crucial blow to credibility of execution doctor By Jeremy Kohler/St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://www.lakeexpo.com/articles/2008/01/20/top_news/02.txt Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:13 AM CST Missouri officials fought to keep the moment from happening. From behind a screen in a Kansas City court June 5, the doctor who devised and supervised the state's lethal injection procedure described it in terms so troubling to a federal judge that he ordered it halted.The doctor testified anonymously that he is dyslexic. That he sometimes confused names of drugs. That he sometimes gave inconsistent testimony. That the injection protocol was not written down, and that he made changes on his "independent authority."And that turns out not to be all...continue to full post

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