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December 07, 2005

New Yorker examines Iraqi prisoner's death

Manadel al-Jamad was an Iraqi prisoner at the Abu Ghraib prison who died during a C.I.A. interrogation in 2003. In November, New Yorker magazine dwelved into Jamadi's death, examining the suspicious autopsy and posing the question, "Can the C.I.A. legally kill a person?" Dr. Wecht and New York State Police pathologist Michael Baden both reviewed Jamadi's autopsy and concluded differently than the military pathologists who conducted the initial autopsy. It's an interesting story. See A Deadly Interrogation

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December 02, 2005

Update on Dr. Wecht's Katrina trip

Authorities are now investigating whether hospital and nursing home patients were put out of their misery during Hurricane Katrina with lethal doses of morphine or other drugs. Dr. Wecht, who spent several days in Louisianna conducting autopsies, said toxicological tests should be able to show if drugs such as morphine were in a victim's system and whether they contributed to death.

Autopsy conditions seemed poor, at best. Dr. Wecht said most of the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition so there were few blood samples. The toxicological tests had to rely on pieces of body tissue, instead.

See Probe looks at alleged Katrina euthanasia

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