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| Expert dismisses execution risk |
| By The Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 10/12/2006 |
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BALTIMORE, MD - A medical expert testified yesterday that the scenario of death row inmate Vernon L. Evans Jr. remaining conscious but paralyzed and unable to signal his pain as he is executed is "medically implausible." Attorneys for Evans have argued during a federal court challenge to the state's lethal injection procedures that unqualified members of Maryland's execution team trying to start an IV line in the prisoner's heroin-ravaged veins could leave him insufficiently sedated, and at particular risk of suffering excruciating pain during the execution. But Dr. Mark Dershwitz, an anesthesiologist at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, testified yesterday that that was unlikely. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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