European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 252007 stars and stripes Page 11 analysis finds fault with administration of lethal injection by Karen Kaplan los Angeles times two of the three drugs used in lethal injection Are not administered in a Way that reliably produces painless death for inmates Leav ing at least some to die of suffocation and be conscious enough to re Alize it according to a new Analy Sis of executions in California and North Carolina reviewing the cases of 41 in mates dating Back to 1984 the re searchers found that the dose of anaesthesia Given at the Start of an execution varied widely and was often Short of the amount needed to keep an inmate unconscious they also concluded that the chemical intended to induce cardiac arrest did nut allays Stop Pris Oner hearts the argument thais always been Given about lethal injection is that in theory a Well trained per son could give it humanely said Deborah Denno a professor at Fordham University school of Law who has studied lethal inject Tio for 15 years this casts doubt on even that the study published monday in the Public Library of science Jour Nal plos Medicine provides badly needed scientific data for a debate that has been largely de void of hard evidence regarding the medical underpinnings of lethal injection twelve states have put executions on hold in Large part due to concerns Over the constitutionality of lethal injection California gov Arnold Schwarzenegger and state attorney general Jerry Brown intend to recommend re forms by May 15 while he doubted Many of the study conclusions he supported the idea that lethal injection May be too problematic to preserve the real Issue should be is this the Best Way to do this left get some doctors together and say if you were going to put your Mother Down How would you do it exe cution by lethal injection was Origi Nally formulated in 1977 by an Oklahoma state legislator who opposed capital punishment and worked with the state medical examiner to devise a humane alter native to electric chairs and firing squads they developed a regimen of three powerful drugs the Seda Tive sodium Thi Pental to make the inmate unconscious the muscle relaxant pan uranium Bromide to in Duce paralysis and potassium Chloride to Stop the heart each was supposed to induce death on its own and the Combina Tion was intended to provide redundancy Jae c Virginia gov urn Kaine right and South korean ambassador Taesik Lee listen As Theodore Kim former president of the Korea american association of greater Washington not pictured delivers remarks tues Day on the Virginia tech shootings during a meeting with korean Community leaders in Annandale Vava governor seeking ways to close gun sales loophole by Vicki Smith the associated press Blacksburg a 7 Virgin is governor said tuesday he May be Able to close the loophole that allowed seun Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 peo ple on the Virginia tech Campus in 2005 a court had ordered psychiatric counselling for Cho after determining he presented a Dan Ger to himself but because he was never committed to a mental Hospi Tal that order never appeared in the background Check database that gun dealers Are required to Check before Selling a firearm gov Timothy m Kaine said in a radio interview that an executive order might be Able to tighten that reporting requirement based on what we know now if s pretty Clear he should not have been Able to obtain a weapon said retired Virginia state police superintendent w Gerald Massengil who Kaine appointed to head a review commission on the Virginia tech Campus classes Are Back in session this week with Counselor available for students and staff who needed to talk Joe Merola needed them Mon Day after trying to give his Stu dents a lecture on an equation explaining the voltage in batteries looking out at 100 students and a Virginia tech sweatshirt he had placed on a seat to Honor a student who was wounded he broke Down 1 lost it Halfway through class Merola said i burst into tears and had to turn it Over to the coun Selorus Sale Price begins the Day after this and