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In North Carolina, the Greensboro News-Record carries the OpEd, "It's time to stop executing people," by Tom Campbell, a former state treasurer.The arguments for and against capital punishment have gone on long enough. Having once been a supporter of the death penalty, I now believe it is time to abolish this practice. The arguments in favor of abolishment begin with the current conflict and end with the Ten Commandments. North Carolina hasn?t executed a prisoner since August 2006, because of a controversy raised by the N.C. Medical Board. State law requires that a licensed physician be present for executions, but the board threatened to punish any doctor who administered, supervised or even gave verbal instructions for lethal injections, citing the ?do no harm? provision of the Hippocratic Oath as substantiation for its position...continue to full post

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