I Didn’t Know Inserting a Syringue Into a Hole Took “Temperament” January 20, 2008
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Inmates seek IDs of executioners
Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressing Missouri to provide the names of members of its execution team after a Post-Dispatch investigation revealed that one was a convicted stalker.
In papers filed last week in federal court in Kansas City, the lawyers said the executioner’s criminal record, detailed in a front-page story Jan. 13, raises questions about his “temperament and suitability” to help with executions.
The newspaper reported that [*****], a licensed practical nurse then on probation, worked on Missouri executions and was permitted to join a federal team that executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in Indiana in 2001.
[*****], originally charged with felonies for allegedly stalking and damaging the property of a man who had a relationship with his estranged wife, pleaded no contest to misdemeanors and received a suspended imposition of sentence. That cleared his record once he served two years on probation.
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Those circumstances raise questions about the state’s screening procedures and desire to have qualified executioners, claimed lawyers for convicted killers Reginald Clemons, Richard Clay, Jeffrey Ferguson, Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor.
Of course those on death row want to know the name of the doctor that will send them to their just rewards. That way, they can pass that name on to their friends, cohorts, cronies, and fellow gang members, and they can find the doctor and then assassinate him or her.
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