Don't Blame The Taser, Doctor Bro... Or Else We Sue
Found on Techdirt on Sunday, 04 May 2008
There have been a number of reported deaths of people soon after those individuals were subdued by law enforcement using a Taser stun gun.
It appears that the company has taken the exceptionally aggressive step of suing some of the doctors who list a Taser shock as one of the causes of death. It then uses research and "experts" paid for by Taser to make the claim that a Taser cannot lead to death -- preferring the basically made up diagnosis of "excited delirium."
The reasoning should be pretty simple: alive guy plus Taser equals dead guy. Without the use of a Taser, some people might still be alive, so I'd say it is rather clear that those weapons are deadly.