This article has attempted to outline some of the important ethical issues faced by the
psychiatrist in the forensic role. Much of forensic psychiatry is practiced by general …

Physician involvement created and perpetuates the seriously flawed protocol of lethal
injection. Physicians and particularly anesthesiologists now have the opportunity to redress …

Background: It has been found that physicians condone colleague involvement in capital
punishment. Physicians' own willingness to participate has not been explored. Objective: To …

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 …

Project MUSE - Health Professionals and Lethal Injection Execution in the United States [Skip to
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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 …

Lethal injection is the preferred method for the execution of condemned prisoners in the
United States. A recent decision of The European Union to prohibit the export of drugs used …

RETHINKING the Ethics of Physician Participation in Lethal Injection EXECUTION - NELSON -
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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 …

The American Journal of Bioethics important flipside to this. If co-victims' suffering matters in
this way, this implies something implausible, namely that when all else is equal except that …