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American Board of Anesthesiologists To Censure Participants in Lethal Injections

By Steve Hall

"Group to censure physicians who play role in lethal injections," is the title of a Washington Post report by Rob Stein. A national physicians organization has quietly decided to revoke the certification of any member who participates in executing a prisoner by lethal injection. The mandate from the American Board of Anesthesiologists reflects its leaders' belief that "we are healers, not executioners," board secretary Mark A. Rockoff said. Although the American Medical Association has long opposed doctor involvement, the anesthesiologists' group is the first to say it will harshly penalize a health-care worker for abetting lethal injections. The loss of certification would prevent an anesthesiologist from working in most hospitals...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).