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Doctors Who Aid in Executions Unlikely to Face Sanctions

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a post at the AMA's American Medical News written by Kevin O'Reilly.  It's subtitled, "Capital punishment opponents want medical boards to punish these physicians, but a new study finds that boards do not have the legal power to intervene."  Here's an extended excerpt of this must-read:No U.S. medical board has disciplined a doctor for taking part in an execution, and that is unlikely to change, according to a new legal study.The study, published in January in the Federation of State Medical Boards' Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline, is believed to be the first to comprehensively review all state laws and regulations on doctors, medical boards and executions. The study found that only seven death-penalty states incorporate the American Medical Association's ethics code, which, among other things, bars physician participation in executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).