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Doctor's Help Sought in Failed Ohio Execution Try

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an AP report by JoAnne Viviano, via Google News.  LINKAs an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from a doctor ? a move generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules ? federal court papers show.Dr. Carmelita Bautista said in a deposition filed in U.S. District Court that she had never before been involved in an execution."No, because I am a doctor," she tells a lawyer questioning her. "We are supposed to help people who are sick. We're supposed to heal people as such as we can."Bautista said she tried to insert an IV catheter into Romell Broom's foot during the execution attempt on Sept. 15 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).