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Posted: September 30, 2008

Supreme Court to rule on death penalty dispute

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Raleigh, N.C. — The death penalty debate will move to the state Supreme Court in November.

The high court has agreed to hear a dispute over the role of physicians in North Carolina executions. Arguments are scheduled for Nov. 18.

Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ruled a year ago that the North Carolina Medical Board overstepped its authority by threatening to punish physicians for participating in executions.

The board adopted the policy early last year, saying the profession's code of ethics should prevent physicians from taking part in an execution. The policy effectively triggered a moratorium on the death penalty in North Carolina, which has not executed an inmate since August 2006.

State law requires that a doctor be present during a lethal injection, and a federal judge demanded last year that a doctor oversee the process of putting an inmate to death.

RELATED TOPICS: Death Penalty, Supreme Court

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Hope the Supremes can get this party back on track! Let's clear death row in November! Clean slate for 2009. Just remove the requirement for doctors completely - we don't need them. Let the Red Cross teach a class on "death penalty injection techniques" and give certificates - anyone with a Red Cross certificate can work at the executions! Pay these folks $1,000 per execution and you will have them standing in line. Time to get rid of these death row folk - time to die.
Click to view my profile Tax Man
September 30, 2008 4:34 p.m.
Too Much Govet, extremely well said.
Click to view my profile Cricket at the lake
September 30, 2008 3:53 p.m.
When human life can be developed by other means than combining two cells and attaching them to a unique environment other than a human uterus, then we can argue when life actually begins.

Until conception, human life does not exist, only cells.

Just punish those who steal life from those who appreciate theirs.
vote4changeASAP
September 30, 2008 3:52 p.m.
For the morally challenged who think that unborn humans have less rights than say an unborn eagle, please consider the very first line of the U.S. Constitution (the Preamble) which declares that its purpose is to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Posterity means people who have not been born yet. I think high on the list of blessings everyone would want for themselves would be to NOT be killed on purpose by a doctor.
TooMuchGovt
September 30, 2008 3:35 p.m.
MOCENA....well said.
Click to view my profile Tired Of Excuses
September 30, 2008 3:29 p.m.
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