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North Carolina law expands pool of eligible healthcare professionals to oversee executions by lethal injection
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Contributors Richard O'Brien and Ina Roy-Faderman contributed to editing and draft revision.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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