OPP, RCMP told not to aim Taser guns at the chest (Canada)

"In a new approach aimed at reducing deaths caused by stun guns, Canadian police forces are being ordered to take new precautions with Taser guns by no longer aiming the weapon at a person's chest and heart. Police authorities have been told that their Tasers must now only point at a person's abdomen, legs or back if they want to subdue the suspect. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police and other municipal and provincial forces were issued the directive late last week after Taser International made mention of new concerns about the weapons and its links to cardiac arrest. The organization said reducing chest shots will avoid the controversy about whether the electronic control devices affect the human heart" - CTV.ca

Autopsy finds Tasered man died of heart attack (Australia)

"A woman claiming to have witnessed a fatal Taser incident in north Queensland last week says she begged police to stop continuously zapping him with the electric stun gun moments before he died. Antonio Galeano, 39, died after being shot with a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun during a violent confrontation with police at a unit in Brandon, near Townsville last Friday. Police initially said Mr Galeano was shot three times but data recorded by the Taser showed it operated on 28 separate cycles during the confrontation." - Brisbane Times

Cardiologist denies stun gun caused man's death (Canada)

"A cardiology expert paid by the company that makes Tasers told a public inquiry Tuesday he doesn't think Robert Dziekanski's death was at all related to the controversial stun guns. Dziekanski died on the floor of Vancouver's airport in the early morning of October 14, 2007, minutes after four RCMP officers confronted him and stunned him several times with a Taser." - Calgary Sun