Should Physicians Participate in Capital Punishment?
2007; Elsevier BV; Volume: 82; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês
10.4065/82.9.1047-a
ISSN1942-5546
Autores Tópico(s)Health and Conflict Studies
ResumoShould physicians participate in capital punishment? Nearly every organized medical and nursing group in the world opposes physician participation in state-ordered executions.1 Despite this near-universal stance against participation, some argue that if executions are to be carried out, then physicians have a legitimate role to play in minimizing "the harm to…condemned individuals."2 Such an argument contends that physician involvement in executions is morally justified by the duty of compassion toward the person to be killed.
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