Despite a recent order by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that Jared Lee Loughner, who is accused of killing six people and shooting another fourteen including Congress member, Gabrielle Giffords, not be forced to take psychiatric medication pending a Ninth Circuit hearing on the matter next month, doctors at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri where Lorghner is housed by the Bureau of Prisons have begun medicating him again. According to the doctors he is suicidal and a danger to himself without the medication.

The order issued prior to the recommencement of forced medication said that there was no evidence that Loughner was a danger to himself or others. If he is now suicidal it may be a sufficient change in circumstances to allow forced medication. The Ninth Circuit, Friday denied an emergency request to enforce the preliminary injunction forbidding forced medication and suggested that any motion to forbid the current medication be made in the District Court. According to documents filed with the court Loughner asked a psychiatrist to kill him. He paced in circles in his cell, screamed loudly, cried for hours at a time and claimed to hear messages from a radio.

Loughner, who has been diagnosed as being schizophrenic and who is on suicide watch denies being suicidal.