News-Record.com - Greensboro, North Carolina: News: Inmate upset his execution won't take place

RALEIGH (AP) — A convicted killer on North Carolina's death row who fired his lawyers and wants to die said Thursday he's frustrated a dispute over the role doctors should play in executions has kept the state from putting him to death.

Allen Holman's execution is one of five on hold in North Carolina, where the state medical board has threatened to punish any doctor who takes part in an execution.

"Why do they have a problem? They perform abortions, murder babies all the time," Holman told The Associated Press in an interview at the state's Central Prison. "They all of a sudden got conscience about their Hippocratic oath."

So there you have it then.