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Should doctors monitor execution

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Should doctors monitor execution? High court wants clarification on lawDan Kane, Staff WriterComment on this story RALEIGH - The N.C. Supreme Court dove into the two-year stalemate on executions Tuesday by asking attorneys to define what legislators meant by requiring a doctor to be present when convicted murderers are put to death.The debate over the word "present" has created a de facto moratorium on executions in North Carolina.The legal battle pits the N.C. Medical Board against the Department of Correction, which wants a doctor to make sure lethal injections are properly administered. That, the department says, guards against a violation of the constitutional law against cruel and unusual punishment.But the medical board contends that lawmakers, in requiring a doctor's presence, only meant that the doctor should certify that an inmate was executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).

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