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Christa Pike ‘angry, confused’ and unable to move arms after failed execution, lawyers say
(www.theguardian.com)
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My one misunderstanding of this is that we now allow euthanasia for people who are absolutely going to die from chronic illness in some states. They are provided a mixture of stuff to put you to sleep and then stop the heart. If this is something that is excepted and works well with possibly minimal pain then why is it not used as a replacement to this clearly awful way of being put down? We even continue to try and find better ways, but I never see that one talked about.
Medical professionals typically refuse to have anything to do with executions. It kinda goes against the Hippocratic oath.
its usually done by prison staff, that arnt doctors, medical docs and nurses wont risk losing thier license or livelyhood too, because you can report nurses and doctors to thier respective licensing boards for unethical pratices, especially if its a high profiled case. probably did something janky, by learning from phlebotomy classes.
Medical professionals do anything for a quick buck. There are anonymous MDs and nurses involved in this.
Also the drug companies refuse to sell said drugs for excustions
Only about half of doctors take the oath at all, and there are many, many modern versions tailored to their individual goals and beliefs.
While the majority want nothing to do with the entire field of "justice", it's easy enough to find someone that really wants to be part of it.
You say something like this despite the mounting evidence that these state sponsored murder programs have not found competent people willing to be a party to murder.
MDs are all competent?
It's because judicially approved murder is extremely unpopular in educated and competent circles.
Meaning anyone willing to take part in the affair is most likely wholly undercompetent to try.
Not only are the vast majority of doctors and nurses personally against it, but even the few that aren't won't do it because the medical associations would have a hell of a time revoking the executioner's licence.
Not to mention that all the big pharmaceutical companies of the world won’t sell their meds to states using them for execution. I highly doubt they could even get the drugs required for assisted suicide.
plus they would be on the crosshair, of being soft- blacklisted from being employed at any medical institution even if their license arnt in jeopardy.
Thanks for the insight. I was just going off of a few documentaries ive seen years ago that followed a few people that went through the process. I dont remember who it was that helped, but they did seem knowledgeable and able to provide this kit that basically assisted with terminating their life. It all seemed pretty peaceful compared to what they do for executions so it just didnt really make sense to me as to what they used.
Okay, there might be a misunderstanding so I'd just like to check.
Judicial murder is this death penalty exacution stuff. Someone does something bad and a judge tells them he'll have them killed off for it.
Voluntary euthanasia is different. It's where the person themselves wants to end their own life.
Medical ethics say "do no harm" among some otger thigs as well, and the modern interpretation is that a doctor can help with voluntary euthanasia in certain cases. Usually there's a government-mandated checklist to decide there's less "harm" in helping the person leave this world behind that there would beto let them suffer in their chronic ailments. And this is only for some places (jurisdictions). Adoption of voluntary euthanasia is pretty slowgoing.
Medical associations in the US specifically do not want anything to do with executions. They bar their members from taking part in them. The main argument is that the people on "death row" are healthy and taking part in their killing goes against the "do no harm" doctrine.
However, nothing can truly stop a determined medical professional from taking part in an execution. The "only" consequebce of doing so is losing their licence at the medical association (if registered). Since registration and membership are needed to be able to work in the field, there's a huge financial incentive against it.
its likely something ghetto, like prison staff may or maynot learned how to inject someone in the veins.