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Physicians Shouldn't Be Involved in Executions

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That's the title of an OpEd in the Columbia University Spectator. LINK It's written by Dr. Paul S. Applebaum, Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law at Columbia University. He is among the participants in today's symposium, ?The Supreme Court and the Legal, Medical, and Ethical Challenges to Execution by Lethal Injection," noted here and here. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Baze v. Rees, a Kentucky case challenging current practices regarding lethal injection?the modality of death in almost all of the 38 states that allow capital punishment. The decision, expected by June, is likely to focus on the narrow question of the proper standard for assessing whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).

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