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| Doctors assist in executions despite ethics rules |
| By latimes.com- Molly Hennessy-Fiske & Seth Klamann |
| Published: 05/21/2014 |
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For more than 50 years, Missouri relied on Dr. Alan Doerhoff to assist with executions. Doerhoff, 70, said he became involved in the 1970s when the warden at the prison that handled executions retained him because they had been childhood friends. Back then, Missouri was using a gas chamber. Doerhoff recalled that inmates suffered a “hideous” death — writhing, choking, vomiting. The warden expressed interest in a new method: lethal injection. Doerhoff, who by then had been practicing general surgery for 20 years, agreed that it seemed more humane. Read More. |
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