Doctors withdraw from California Execution

Savannah Progressive

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Tue Feb-21-06 11:49 AM
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Doctors withdraw from California Execution

Doctors refuse to participate in an execution in California.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-morales21feb21,0,6929793,print.story?coll=la-headlines-california

"The doctors' withdrawal came at the end of hasty legal maneuvering in U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. But it was the language in an opinion rendered Monday by the appellate court that had the court-ordered anesthesiologists in mutiny.

The doctors' concerns hinged on the ethics of returning an inmate to consciousness in the event of a botched lethal injection.

Doctors said the ruling raised serious questions about the possibility of having to intervene in the execution "if any evidence of either pain or a return to consciousness arose."

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Flubadubya

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Tue Feb-21-06 11:56 AM
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1. Well duh...

there is that little matter of the Hippocratic Oath. :eyes:

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Warpy

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Tue Feb-21-06 12:11 PM
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3. I'm glad they withdrew

No health care professional has any business participating in an execution, murder by proxy to accomplish revenge.

Starting an IV and administering drugs is not rocket science, especially when you don't expect your client to live through the procedure. Leave us out of it.

Better yet, just end the DP. Keep the scumbags in prison where they can't hurt anybody but each other.

And yes, I say this as both a health care professional and as a survivor of a family murder.

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progressivebydesign

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Tue Feb-21-06 11:57 AM
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2. Poor baby... guess it hurts to be raped and murdered when you're 17, too.

zero sympathy.

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