Questions about the safety of taser stun guns used by police forces
across the globe have been raging ever since the supposedly non-lethal
weapons first came into use over a decade ago.
Amnesty International, the company’s most vocal critic, has compiled figures
indicating that at least 500 people in the USA have died since 2001
after being shocked with Tasers, and according to more conservative, but
no less shocking, figures published by the US Justice Department, 184 people have died since 1986 after being stunned by a taser.
Taser International, the company that manufactures the 50,000 volt
devices, has vehemently contested that the weapons are unsafe and has
fought back in court when people say otherwise. Often the blame will
fall back upon the victim’s drug abuse, weak heart or propensity to die
suddenly from the debatable medical term known as ‘excited delirium’ – which Amnesty cites as a cause of death in 111 of 334 cases it has documented.
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