Yet another man has died from a so-called stun gun.

A county inmate died after being shocked nine times with a stun gun, authorities said Tuesday.

Jail officers used a Taser gun four times to subdue Jeffrey Turner, 41, after he banged repeatedly on a security window of a first floor cell Monday night, Lucas County jail administrator Rick Keller said.

He had been shocked five times while being arrested on charges of loitering, resisting arrest and obstructing official business, police said.

Keller said Turner was still responsive after he was shocked the final time. A few minutes later, however, a jail nurse was called. Turner was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

I am not against police officers using a justified physical response. But I definitely think that the threshold for using TASERs has been lowered, because of a misplaced perception that they are harmless. TASERs started out as a replacement for using lethal force. They've evolved into cattle prods, used whenever a perp doesn't toe the line.