Most of those symptoms are/were present during most stun gun deaths. If physical restraints and/or positional asphyxia is added, the results are predictably lethal in police stun gun homicides.
A stun gun shock, which hyper-exercises the muscles in the electrical path, is like demanding that the heart and the lungs provide the life-sustaining metabolic products needed to complete a one-mile run, in 5 to 20 seconds.
For a coroner to search the corpse for signs of electrocution and its metabolic products, may be a fools errand. I doubt they exist, or that coroners know where/what to look for.
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Symptoms of electrocution:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/e/electrocution/symptoms.htm
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Most of those symptoms are/were present during most stun gun deaths. If physical restraints and/or positional asphyxia is added, the results are predictably lethal in police stun gun homicides.
A stun gun shock, which hyper-exercises the muscles in the electrical path, is like demanding that the heart and the lungs provide the life-sustaining metabolic products needed to complete a one-mile run, in 5 to 20 seconds.
For a coroner to search the corpse for signs of electrocution and its metabolic products, may be a fools errand. I doubt they exist, or that coroners know where/what to look for.
Today's death by stun gun:
http://www.sacbee.com/crime/story/2391907.html