In the United States at present, the death penalty is a possible sentence in 31 out of 50
states, as well as within the military and for federal cases. In the US, numbers of executions …

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 …

Those who argue against physician participation in state mandated executions tend to
bracket the question of whether the death penalty should be abolished. I argue that these …

To circumvent objections that the death penalty was “cruel and unusual punishment” and
therefore a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, advocates proposed lethal …

Physicians routinely are involved in capital punishment procedures in both medical and non-
medical capacities. This creates debate over whether physicians participating in capital …

In an opinion dissenting from a Supreme Court decision to deny review in a death penalty
case, Supreme CourtJusticeHarryBlackmunfamouslywrote,“Fromthis day forward, I no …

Medical ethics prohibit physicians from using their special skills to serve in nonhealth
related, state-sponsored activities such as capital punishment and torture, yet physician …

The death penaltyis legal in 36 states, and physicians are expected to attend and participate
in executions. Yet, every major medical and health-related organization opposes physician …

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 …

The move back to capital punishment in most of the states has ensnared the physician, as
participant-agent of the state, in the burgeoning execution process. Although a humanist …