Dyslexic doctor of death involved in federal LI protocol

As detailed in posts here and here, I have long been wondering why federal officials have so willingly postponed federal executions during all the litigation over state execution protocols.  Now, thanks to this article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the mystery may be clearing up:

The doctor barred by a federal judge from performing executions in Missouri is part of the federal government’s secret execution team at its death chamber in Indiana, according to court documents filed in a death penalty appeal. 

Dr. Alan Doerhoff testified anonymously in federal court in Kansas City in June 2006 that dyslexia caused him at times to confuse numbers, give inconsistent testimony and call drugs by the wrong name. As a result, U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. ordered a temporary halt to Missouri executions, saying he had concerns that the condemned might be subjected to unconstitutionally cruel punishment.

Doerhoff remained anonymous until the Post-Dispatch reported his name the following month and revealed that he had been sued for malpractice more than 20 times, denied staff privileges by two hospitals and reprimanded by the state Board of Healing Arts for failing to disclose the lawsuits to a hospital where he was treating patients.

The allegations that Doerhoff was involved in federal executions surfaced in a legal filing in September, amended last month, in the appeal of James Roane Jr. He was sentenced to death in February 1993 for his participation in a series of drug-related murders in Richmond, Va.

Apparently this story was first broken by Henry Weinstein in this LA Times article, and this AP story suggests that the feds hired the dyslexic doc after his questionable abilities were known.  Yeesh!