The AMA and many other medical groups have long opposed doctors having any role in executions, including monitoring a prisoner's vital signs or giving technical advice.
"They should not even certify death," because if they find the patient has not died it would lead to more drugs or electrocution to kill the patient, Miles said.
"The ethical standard is pretty much universal," said Leonard Rubenstein, a lawyer who is director of Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights. "It's the same reason physicians can't be involved in coerced interrogations," or help certify prisoners as psychiatrically fit to be executed, he said.
It's a voluntary rule and no doctors have been reprimanded or defrocked for taking part in executions.
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A voluntary rule? If only victims had the same consideration when they are murdered.
I'm sure there are doctors that would have volunteered to assist.
b-b-b-but they have no problem with "doctors" executing babies in the womb?
All those in favor, raise your right hand: Let's execute this meddling, overly sensitive judge!! Then HE can tell us if if its painful.
These people are such hypocrites. They hide behind "ethics" the same way the terrorist hide behind "religion" There is nothing ethical about this. It's all political.