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Executioner Banned in Missouri but Available for Hire Elsewhere
Loaded on May 15, 2009
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2009, page 42
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Medical Misconduct,
Discrimination,
Political Prisoners,
Death Penalty.
Location:
Maryland.
A former Missouri prison doctor and participant in lethal injections, who was banned from performing executions in that state, is still for hire to conduct executions in other jurisdictions. With over 40 death sentences notched in his belt, he is widely sought after for his purported ...
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