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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
That is completely false.
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No, it is not completely false.
Many autopsy reports dealing with taser deaths are inconclusive because it is difficult to trace a lethal arrhythmia after the heart has stopped beating. In fact, this is the case in most deaths that are caused by an arrhythmia (taser induced or not)... which is why the cause of death for scores of people that died from heart arrhythmias is listed as "natural causes", but that's beside the point. I'm not sure if you will ever see a death certificate that cites "ventricular fibrillation" as the cause of death.
The association between dangerous arrhythmia's and tasers is not a new one, and evidence has been mounting for some time that taser use is dangerous specifically for this reason.