Resources Related to Dr. Doe’s Participation in Federal Executions

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/dpclinic/LethalInjection/Public/doe.html Resources Related to Dr. Doe’s Participation in Federal Executions We have been receiving calls about the participation of “Dr. Doe” in federal lethal injection executions. The following is information related to this developing story. On November 13, 2007, the Death Penalty Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the petitioner in the pending Baze lethal injection case. The purpose of the brief was to apprise the Court of the serious flaws in the administration of lethal injection that have been uncovered through litigation in various jurisdictions around the country. One of the facts that the Clinic's brief highlighted was that the federal Government has been relying upon, to develop its own lethal injection procedures, the very same doctor whose testimony led a federal judge in Missouri to bar him from participating in executions in that state. The Clinic learned this information through a review of publicly-filed pleadings in a pending lawsuit challenging the administration of lethal injection in federal executions. Below are several documents related to Dr. Doe's participation in federal executions. Also posted below are documents related to training conducted by the federal government for state department of corrections personnel from several states, including California, Arizona, Florida, Missouri, and Tennessee. "Doctor barred by Missouri helps in federal executions", L.A Times, November 15, 2007. Brief for Michael Morales, Michael Taylor, et. al (filed by the Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic on November 13, 2007) Publicly-filed, redacted pleading filed October 10, 2007 in federal Roane litigation, cited in footnote 36 of the Death Penalty Clinic brief (discussing Dr. Doe’s participation in federal executions) Jeremy Kohler, Behind the Mask of the Execution Doctor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 30, 2006, at A1 (discussing role of Dr. Doe in Missouri executions and revealing his name as Dr. Alan Doerhoff) Letter from Michael Pritchett, Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, to Michael Gans, Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Cir. (filed Apr. 17, 2007) (informing court that the Missouri Department of Corrections would no longer be using Dr. Doe in Missouri executions) Order of the U.S. District Court that Dr. Doe “shall not participate in any manner, at any level, in the State of Missouri’s lethal injection process” (filed September 12, 2006) Execution Protocol Training Agenda (April 2007) (describing training regarding lethal injections conducted by the federal government) (received via Tennessee public records act request)