Taster International has sued bloggers and medical examiners who have attributed cause of death to a Taser.SlowDave wrote:Tasers: I don't think the med examiner's report is ever going to say: "Cause of death: taser."
But back to its purpose: Taser is an alternative to physical force, whether deadly or otherwise. More specifically, it's an alternative to beating someone with a club, or being even more directly hands-on. It lets officers apply the subject's own muscle strength against him, while minimizing the risk to the officer(s) or others, and stopping the force continuum before it escalates to deadly force because of the officer starting to lose the fight.
If someone really needs to be shot, the Taser is seldom used as an alternative.
In addition to the google search mentioned above, here is another good search:
http://www.theagitator.com/?s=taser" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Especially this, this, this, or this.