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Civil Rights

Mar. 8, 2003

Laws Should Blend Freedom With Knowledge of the Brain

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - What state of mind must a man have when death calls his name? This may sound like a philosophical question, but a recent decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals addressed this precise issue, concluding that a condemned man may be injected forcibly with mind-altering drugs in an effort to chemically induce a particular state of mind before his execution.

Forum Column

By Richard Glen Boire
        
        What state of mind must a man have when death calls his name? This may sound like a philosophical question, but a recent decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals addressed this precise issue, concluding that a condemned man may be injected forcibly with mind-altering drugs in an effort to chemic...

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