Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new
insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided …

Over the past several years, the most widely publicized issue in capital litigation has been
the constitutional status of states' lethal injection protocols. Death row inmates have not …

Abstract Background Approximately 20% of the United States' population lives in a state or
jurisdiction where medical aid in dying (MAiD) is legal. It is unknown how physicians' own …

The practice of health-care professional involvement in capital punishment has come under
scrutiny since the implementation of lethal injection as a method of execution, raising …

Physician involvement in state-ordered executions has emerged as a controversial issue in
medical ethics in the United States over the past couple of decades, due primarily to the …

Abstract This issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is dedicated to topics in
clinical ethics with essays addressing clinician participation in state sponsored execution …

A paper was published in 2003 discussing the ethics of nurses participating in executions by
inserting the intravenous line for lethal injections and providing care until death. This paper …

It was a normal day for Dr. Smith and Dr. Adams, two state-employed doctors. They start the
day with their names being repeated on the speakerphone of the emergency room. They …