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Doctors' role in executions debated

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Doctors' role in executions debatedDeath penalty foes go after licenses.By CARLOS CAMPOSThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPublished on: 02/01/05After a lethal dose of chemicals flowed through the veins of convicted killer Timothy Don Carr last Tuesday night, two physicians with stethoscopes around their necks quietly entered the execution chamber.One at a time, the doctors confirmed with a somber nod to the warden of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson that the state had succeeded in carrying out the court-ordered death penalty. A third physician, unseen behind a two-way mirror, monitored an electrocardiogram that displayed the prisoner's last heartbeats.The doctors' identities are carefully protected ? as are all involved in lethal injections, including prison officials who activate the plungers that deliver the deadly dose...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).

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