Food marketing and childhood obesity--a matter of policy.

2527 lenged his state’s lethal-injection protocol. On April 7, U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard ruled that his execution in North Carolina could proceed only if there were “execution personnel with sufficient medical training to ensure that Plaintiff is in all respects unconscious prior to and at the time of the administration of any pancuronium bromide or potassium chloride.” Subsequently, the protocol was modified to include the BIS monitoring of Brown’s level of consciousness. The monitor was to be located in an observation room adjacent to the execution chamber, next to an electrocardiographic monitor, where a licensed physician and a licensed registered nurse could view them. If the BIS reading was 60 or higher after the injection of the initial 3000 mg of sodium thiopental, then the execution team was to continue to administer the agent until the reading fell below 60, and only then were the subsequent injections to be given. On April 11, a North Carolina corrections official called Aspect’s toll-free telephone sales number to purchase a monitor, which was shipped the same day. According to Aspect, the written purchaseorder request sent from North Carolina stated, “This equipment is used to monitor vital signs and sedation scales of patients recovering from surgery.” After he became aware of the sale, Kelley described it as “a regrettable system failure.” According to an affidavit from Kelley, the pur-